2026年4月28日 美国东部时间7:02 / 美联社
特朗普政府已解雇负责监督美国国家科学基金会的独立董事会成员。
美国国家科学委员会的成员于周五收到了总统人事办公室“代表唐纳德·J·特朗普总统”发送的邮件，通知他们的职位“已被立即终止”。
“老实说，我并不完全意外，”被解雇的董事会成员凯万·斯塔森在一封邮件中说道。这位在范德堡大学任职的学者补充称，这一决定“极其令人失望”。
美国国家科学委员会成立于1950年，旨在就科学与工程政策向总统和国会提供建议、批准重大资助奖项并指导美国国家科学基金会的未来发展。
该委员会通常由25名成员组成，由总统任命，任期六年，实行交错任期制。此次被解雇的科学家来自学术界和工业界，专业领域涵盖天文学、数学、化学和航空航天工程等。
据被解雇的成员约兰达·吉尔透露，当前22人委员会的所有成员均被解雇。吉尔在一封邮件中表示，该委员会原计划于下周召开线下会议，并正在敲定一份关于美国科学现状的报告。
“我认为这进一步表明，本届政府计划对美国国家科学基金会进行全面改革，”就职于南加州大学信息科学研究所的吉尔说道。
参议院商业、科学与运输委员会最高民主党议员玛丽亚·坎特韦尔在一份声明中表示，此举“是对推动美国创新与发现的制度和专业知识的危险攻击”。
特朗普政府去年曾试图将美国国家科学基金会90亿美元的预算削减一半以上。国会维持了该基金会的拨款，但下一年度再次出现类似的削减提案。
斯塔森表示，如果没有当前的咨询委员会，这类削减可能会更容易推进。
这可能会“彻底摧毁对基础研究以及为国家培养下一代科学家和工程师的投资”，斯塔森说道。
美国国家科学基金会的总部也已迁至一栋更小的建筑。去年，美国住房和城市发展部宣布将迁入位于弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市的美国国家科学基金会原办公基地。
美国国家科学基金会已向白宫提出置评请求。白宫尚未立即回应置评请求。
Trump administration fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation
April 28, 2026 7:02 AM EDT / AP
The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation.
Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately.”
“I wasn’t entirely surprised, to be honest,” said dismissed board member Keivan Stassun in an email. Stassun, who works at Vanderbilt University, added that the decision was “enormously disappointing.”
The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards and guide the NSF’s future.
It’s typically made up of 25 members appointed by the president who serve staggered, six-year terms. The fired scientists hail from academia and industry and specialize in areas including astronomy, math, chemistry and aerospace engineering.
Every member of the current 22-person board was let go, according to terminated member Yolanda Gil. The board had planned to meet in person next week and was finalizing a report on the state of U.S. science, Gil said in an email.
“I think this is one more indication of the sweeping changes that the administration has in mind for the NSF,” said Gil, who works at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California.
Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said in a statement that the move was “a dangerous attack on the institutions and expertise that drive American innovation and discovery.”
The Trump administration tried to cut the science foundation’s $9 billion budget by more than half last year. Congress maintained NSF’s funding, but a similar slash is once again on the table for the coming year.
Without an advisory board in the way this time, Stassun said, such cuts may be easier to execute.
It could “eviscerate investments in fundamental research and in the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers for our nation,” Stassun said.
The science foundation’s headquarters was also relocated to a smaller building. Last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would be moving into the NSF’s former base in Alexandria, Virginia.
The National Science Foundation directed a request for comment to the White House. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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