{"id":34311,"date":"2025-02-25T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/ex-us-security-officials-urge-funding-for-science-research-to-keep-up-with-china\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:37:34","slug":"ex-us-security-officials-urge-funding-for-science-research-to-keep-up-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/ex-us-security-officials-urge-funding-for-science-research-to-keep-up-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appeal from officials, including two senior figures from Trump\u2019s first term, comes amid reports National Science Foundation\u2019s budget will be slashed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/25\/donald-trump-elon-musk-email-latest-us-politics-news-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chuck Hagel, the former US defense secretary, and other former US national security officials, including two senior figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> first term, on Tuesday warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> was outpacing the US in critical technology fields and urged Congress to increase funding for federal scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal comes a week after the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds science research, fired 170 people in response to Donald Trump\u2019s order to reduce the federal workforce. An NSF spokesman declined comment on reports that hundreds more layoffs were possible and that the agency\u2019s budget could be slashed by billions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/science-research-china-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appeal from officials, including two senior figures from Trump\u2019s first term, comes amid reports National Science Foundation\u2019s budget will be slashed US politics live \u2013 latest updates Chuck Hagel, the former US defense secretary, and other former US national security officials, including two senior figures from Donald Trump\u2019s first term, on Tuesday warned that China &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/ex-us-security-officials-urge-funding-for-science-research-to-keep-up-with-china\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}