Trump’s efforts to pause federal funds was curbed by the courts, with a US district court judge in Washington on Monday granting a temporary restraining order, releasing funds that the executive order from Trump had blocked.
US scientists feeling ‘stress and fear’ as sweeping Trump orders hit funding Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders.
Macias’s work is intended to improve the resilience of semi-arid forests across the south-west US to drought and climate change – and could help inform Trump’s stated goals to improve forest management and reduce the impact of wildfires.
Scientists around the US have described experiencing distress, disruption to their work and interruption of payments in the chaos following Donald Trump’s executive orders affecting federal grant money.
It was back online this week following a five-day outage that ended on Sunday – but not before affecting many scientists who expressed alarm about what the moves could mean for the future as they try to navigate Trump’s orders on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), climate and gender.