Bill Nelson, a former Democratic senator from Florida and NASA administrator under President Joe Biden, began his remarks at a Capitol Hill press conference on Monday in opposition to the Trump administration’s cuts to federal science spending and staff by acknowledging an "Emergency Exit Only” placard on the door behind the lectern.
“This sign says it,” he said. “We’re in an emergency.”
In the wake of Congress passing a bill to claw back $9 billion that lawmakers previously approved for foreign assistance and public media, Nelson singled out a reported possible second recissions measure targeting $30 billion in funding at the EPA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation and the Interior and Health and Human Services departments.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/former-federal-science-leaders-warn-trump-proposals-could-cripple-us-research/406907/
