{"id":72739,"date":"2026-04-28T01:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-fires-independent-board-overseeing-national-science-foundation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:47","slug":"trump-fires-independent-board-overseeing-national-science-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-fires-independent-board-overseeing-national-science-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positions \u2018terminated, effective immediately\u2019, says email to scientists sent on president\u2019s behalf, in move labelled \u2018dangerous attack\u2019 on US innovation<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office \u201con behalf of President Donald J Trump\u201d stating that their position was \u201cterminated, effective immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/28\/trump-fires-national-science-foundation-board\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positions \u2018terminated, effective immediately\u2019, says email to scientists sent on president\u2019s behalf, in move labelled \u2018dangerous attack\u2019 on US innovation The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office \u201con &#8230; <a title=\"Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-fires-independent-board-overseeing-national-science-foundation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation\">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-72739","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\/72739","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=72739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}