The National Science Foundation funds a huge amount of science in the US, and this appeared on their website 7 hours ago (at https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders )
This is telling people to stop work on existing grants if the work might touch on equality or diversity considerations (keep reading down).
I’m pretty sure that every grant application had to have a section on how those considerations were being addressed. This is mindblowingly disruptive and destructive.
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