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- Clarification 05 May 2025
- Correction 06 May 2025
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
Update: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) terminated roughly 380 grants on Friday 2 May, an NSF staff member told Nature. That raises the total number of terminated grants to approximately 1,425. Also on Friday, the White House proposed a budget for fiscal year 2026 that would cut funding for the US National Science Foundation and the US National Institutes of Health by roughly 55% and 40%, respectively.
Updates & Corrections
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Clarification 05 May 2025: This story has been changed to clarify that NSF has not frozen funds already allocated to existing grants.
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Correction 06 May 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated teh entity that must notify Congress of a halt in grants.
References
Gonzalez Garcia, I., Montecino, J. & Ramaswamy, V. Institute for Macroeconomic and Policy Analysis Report https://doi.org/10.57912/28746446 (2025).