{"id":21557,"date":"2026-04-19T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/national-science-foundations-future-in-limbo-as-trump-eyes-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:22:19","slug":"national-science-foundations-future-in-limbo-as-trump-eyes-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/national-science-foundations-future-in-limbo-as-trump-eyes-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"National Science Foundation\u2019s future in limbo as Trump eyes cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation&rsquo;s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.&nbsp; Since Trump&rsquo;s return to the White House, the administration has canceled or suspended nearly 1,400 of the agency&#8217;s grants&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5835619-future-nsf-research-limbo\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation&rsquo;s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.&nbsp; Since Trump&rsquo;s return to the White House, the administration has canceled or suspended nearly 1,400 of the agency&#8217;s grants&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}