Policy & Advocacy

The brief urges the court to deny the government’s request for a stay pending approval, emphasizing the immediate and irreparable harm caused by the termination of grants supporting early career scientists.

The mark for the NSF was $7 billion, a 24 percent reduction or $2.06 billion less than fiscal year 2025, and cuts the STEM education section from the bill.

Amid ongoing disruptions in federal funding for research, the abrupt and legally questionable termination of NIH and NSF grants, and other threats, FASEB, a GSA partner organization, is offering multiple opportunities for researchers to engage in advocacy over the next few months.

Continuing GSA's latest blog series shedding light on how members of our community are being affected by recent government funding and policy changes, we look into the economic impact to the United States and loss of output from decreased investment in science.

Join the Day of Action on July 21 and tell Congress to protect science and American innovation.

FASEB, a GSA partner organization, sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to reject the unprecedented cuts in the NIH and the NSF funding that were proposed in the administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request.

Although the ruling will not immediately reinstate terminated grants, FASEB views it as an important first step in ensuring that scientists underrepresented in biomedical research have access to funding to pursue research-intensive careers.

NIH is requiring all NIH awardees to review their research portfolios to identify NIH funding and other support for projects meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research.

Apply to join fellow scientists at this special virtual advocacy event from September 8, 2025 through September 12, 2025. Participants will engage with policy makers to highlight the importance of fundamental discoveries.

The Senate appropriations hearing will be live streamed at 10 a.m. EST on June 10, 2025.

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is surveying the impact of Trump Administration's cancellation of federal research grants. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out the brief survey.