Personal Digest: White House cuts $2B UC research grants
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$2 billion — The White House used keyword-driven targeting to cancel $2 billion in research grants to University of California professors, raising questions about political influence on scientific funding.
| California$2 billion in UC research grants canceled in a keyword-driven cut |
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