Last time Congress saved science from Trump’s cuts. Don’t bet on it this time

During the first Trump administration, Congress repeatedly stepped in to prevent significant cuts to key research agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, this time around intervention by Capitol Hill seems much less likely, according to Alessandra Zimmermann, who heads the R&D budget and policy programme at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).