Government workers from the National Science Foundation are sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s attack on the federal independent agency and its impact on the scientific community. In a July 21 letter addressed to San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren — ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology — nearly 150 National Science Foundation (NSF) workers warned about a series of politically motivated actions harming the agency. The workers referenced nine issues in the letter, including the abrupt firing of hundreds of employees, political interference with their merit-based review system of grant proposals and proposed cuts…
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