{"id":57277,"date":"2026-04-26T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=57277"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:11:11","slug":"trump-fires-all-24-members-of-americas-national-science-boardutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-fires-all-24-members-of-americas-national-science-boardutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires All 24 Members of America&#8217;s National Science Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-182921582\">\n<div id=\"text-182921582\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tAmerica&#8217;s National Science Board (NSB) &#8220;was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation,&#8221; writes the Washington Post, &#8220;in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports basic science research in laboratories across the United States.&#8221;   (NSF research has helped evolve the technology used in MRIs, cellphones and LASIK eye surgery.)<\/p>\n<p>But  yesterday President Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), reports <em>Science<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\nIn addition to advising the administration and Congress on national science policy, it has statutory authority to oversee the actions of the $9-billion NSF, setting policy and approving large expenditures.<br \/>\nIts presidentially appointed members, typically prominent academics and industry leaders, serve 6-year terms, with eight members chosen every 2 years&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Keivan Stassun, one of the dismissed board members, says the mass firing is the latest indication that the White House is ignoring the board&#8217;s authority and dictating policies at NSF, which has been without a permanent director since Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned exactly one year ago.  Stassun, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University who was appointed to the board in 2022, thinks the board&#8217;s public criticism in May 2025 of Trump&#8217;s proposed 55% cut to NSF&#8217;s current budget \u2014 which Congress ultimately ignored \u2014 antagonized the administration. &#8220;Maybe one way to say it from the administration&#8217;s perspective,&#8221; Stassun says, &#8220;is that this group of presidential appointees was advising the Congress to not follow the president&#8217;s wishes.&#8221; <br \/>\nThe Washington Post adds that &#8220;The White House did not immediately respond to inquiries about why the members were terminated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Trump #Fires #Members #Americas #National #Science #Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s National Science Board (NSB) &#8220;was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation,&#8221; writes the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57278,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions\/57278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}