FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “Keivan Stassun, who had served on the board since 2023, said the firings allow the Trump administration, through the White House Office of Management and Budget, to exert ‘direct control of the nation’s primary investment in basic scientific research and technology by, in effect, removing the governance layer.’ The board sets the NSF’s policies and approves major expenditures. ‘What will happen is that NSF will essentially become a pass-through for implementing things in the domain of sciences and technology that the administration just wants to do,’ said Stassun, the Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics at Vanderbilt University. ‘OMB can essentially tell the remaining bureaucratic functionaries … what to fund, and what not to fund, and at what levels, and when. ‘ ” Read more here.