From Higher Ed Dive: “A White House spokesperson said in a May statement that the Trump administration “is committed to cementing America’s dominance in cutting-edge technologies of the future — innovation that is being driven by advancements in hard sciences, not in ideologically-driven ‘social sciences.’” But the administration never said why it is labeling entire fields such as psychology and economics as “ideologically driven,” the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit Monday. And even if it were to explain, they argued, the rationale would directly conflict with the statutes that created NSF, “which repeatedly direct the Foundation to support the social sciences.”

Plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit to stop the intended action. Read more here.