At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come

The federal agency that funds science research says the staff reduction came in response to a White House directive.

The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the US government as the Trump administration seeks to shrink federal agencies.

Some DEI programs aren’t worth defending. Donald Trump did not campaign on a promise to end the Pentagon’s celebration of Black History Month. Nor did the Republican air advertisements pledging to remove displays honoring nonwhite and female scientists from the National Science Foundation.

On Tuesday, leaders at the National Science Foundation reportedly laid off about 170 employees, many via Zoom—an estimated 10 percent of the agency’s workers. One of those workers spoke to Mother Jones,

Several actions are currently being challenged in court while USC administrators scramble to adapt. Roughly $10.6 million in National Science Foundation grants to USC researchers across 19 research projects are featured on a list of “woke DEI” research compiled by Sen.

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee. The agency made the change after President Donald Trump took office on January 20 with a sweeping directive aimed at reducing the federal workforce,

The government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that even references the climate crisis, academics have said, amid Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg upon environmental regulations and clean-energy development.

The National Science Foundation fired 170 probationary employees and experts Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce, the agency confirmed.

The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive orders, which are presidential directives on how the government should operate inside existing laws. The Trump White House did not respond to Nature ’s request for comment.

Fox News aired a joint interview with President Donald Trump and Musk conducted by Sean Hannity Tuesday evening, in which the president and his adviser were full of praise for each other. Trump promised the U.