NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones.
The totally-preventable self-destruction continues. NSF grants were instrumental in creating the internet, most of modern computing, clean energy tech, on and on ad infinitum.
This is what happens when your enemies are in charge of your country. And again, I do not mean my political enemies. I mean that Russia and China appear to be running the place. And if they aren’t this is exactly what they’d do if they were, so what does it matter?