Trump-RFK, Jr. National Science Board firings: Accountability vs. partisan meddling M. Anthony Mills | Issues | July 24, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/07/24/trump-rfk-jr-national-science-board-firings-accountability-vs-partisan-meddling/ In late April, President Trump fired the National Science Board (NSB), yanking a federal science institution that had operated largely out of the public eye for more than 75 years into the center of a national controversy. Given the cuts and terminations that have already roiled the National Science Foundation (NSF)—the agency the board was created to govern—these firings were widely interpreted as another manifestation of the White House’s multifront “war on science.”