2025-02-07
19 分钟For Scientific American Science.
Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.
We're 18 days into the second Trump administration,
and when it comes to the president's impact on health and science, things have been pretty chaotic.
There's been sweeping confusion around a plan to freeze federal funding.
Much of health agencies communications with the public have been put on hold,
and the president has signed a blur of executive orders.
So what comes next?
Here to help us understand some of the implications is Max Kozlov.
He's a reporter at Nature covering biomedical science.
Max, thanks so much for joining us to chat today.
Of course.
So a lot has been going on in Washington.
The President signed a ton of executive orders in his initial days.
There have been potential funding freezes for folks who haven't been paying attention.
And what would you say the sort of major headlines are about how science and health are being impacted by this administration right now?
Yeah, that's a good question.
And there has been quite a lot going on.
And so I don't blame anyone for not following every single thing that's happened,
because it is a lot,