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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is really hard to believe this is what we want:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html

Just a quote from that article: he $154 billion figure the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century. ... The proposed drop in federal funding for science research, if approved by Congress, could let China match or take the lead in global science investments, Ms. Zimmermann said. ...  In April, the science group published figures showing that China had greatly increased support for its scientific enterprise in the past two decades. As of 2023 — the most recent year available for comparisons — China’s investment was close to equaling that of the United States.[/quote]

If we stop the h1b and opt visa programs , US will surge to the lead again in innovation.

Masters and phds will be more highly valued and more US citizens will flock to these programs

What h1b was meant to do and what it successfully did was devalue a PhD and masters degree , which is the opposite of what we need for long term prosperity[/quote]

How on earth is this miraculous turn around going to happen when they've cut science funding off at the knees?  My kid is supposed to start a STEM PhD this fall. Funding is down the toilet - I'll be amazed if more that 1 year of the PhD is funded - she'll be wasting that first year worrying and trying to get herself overseas to a safe haven for science that has some funding. NSF funding which also helps fund PhD students was also loped off. I hope I'm wrong. Plus competition will be fierce. There's no coherent plan, just indiscriminate cutting. And no, they can't use their reserves and no, the decimated bio tech companies aren't swooping into start funding blah, blah, blah. [/quote]

Focus money on US citizens.  Stop opt.  Stop f1.   Stop the replacement is US citizens with cheaper foreigners.

There would be lots of openings and money [/quote]

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