Just from a steady state picture there is now significantly less funding flowing to America's research institutions and institutes. At some point buildings will be shut down, infrastructure mothballed and a generation of scientists will simply not be trained.
An adversary could not ask for a better outcome.
I've got some bad news - NSF basically announced the same thing today
Our adversaries are happy either way.
I've heard locally we're cutting graduate programs down and similarly from other institutions.
However, I wonder, which parts of the statement do you consider "deeply dystopian"?
The only priorities the Trump administration has is in enforcing their myopic right-wing worldview and continuing their Manchurian Candidate destruction of our future by crippling science and education, and alienating the best and brightest people from around the world to make sure they don't come here to live and work, or leave as soon as possible.
We're going to be paying the price for this administration's actions for decades, if not for the rest of our country's existence.
(If you think this is too political for HN, or an over-reaction, remember that's what you said before the election as well. We weren't wrong then, and we're not wrong now.)
Hopefully more forward thinking developed and developing countries can step up and resurrect the US model that made it so successful and lure top talent to their more welcoming shores.
