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NSF Pulls $500 M, Cancels 100 Grants Amid Budget Cut

7/11/2026

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  • The National Science Foundation (NSF) will withdraw about $500 million from its engineering, computer-information, and mathematical-physical science directorates to fund a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy initiative.
  • More than 100 peer-reviewed grant proposals are being pulled back after the Office of Management and Budget labeled NSF spending wasteful and flagged a failure of objectivity.
  • Congress reduced NSF’s budget to $8.75 billion for 2026.