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Susan Collins (R-Maine) kicked off a Wednesday hearing criticizing ??the Trump administration for cutting science funding, firing federal
scientific research could cause economic damage equivalent to a major recession.In the first 100 days of Trump 2.0, the administration has
fired 1,300 employees from the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and canceled more than
$2 billion in federal research grants.Earlier this week, the administration dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the
next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the US.In one such cutback, the Trump administration stripped almost $4 million
release earlier this month explaining the funding cuts.The White House is expected to propose additional reductions in discretionary
spending as part of the annual budget process
Federal agencies like the NIH and the National Science Foundation are among the few funding basic and applied scientific research.The study,
from a group of American University economists, is among the first to run preliminary macroeconomic estimates of the cost of the Department
