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Project 2025's roadmap to defund science
Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to.
The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think-tank based in Washington DC, released Project 2025, a policy guidebook and staffing list, in April 2023, as a blueprint for what it hoped would be a second Trump presidency. But Trump and his administration have closely hewed to Project 2025’s agenda, detailed in a sprawling, 922-page book, passing executive orders to defund climate initiatives and target diversity programmes. The NIH, under the Trump team’s orders, but without the approval of Congress, issued a notice on 7 February that it would cut the indirect cost rate paid to universities for things such as electricity and equipment maintenance to 15%.
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