Your comment suggests that you fundamentally misunderstand the process of scientific discovery and innovation, how the American scientific ecosystem works, or how the economic and technological return on scientific investment has helped to propel the US for the last 70 years.
If you have any doubts that Trump 2.0 will destroy the American scientific workforce for years to come, this summary of cuts at NSF makes the case very strongly.
The STEM education cuts are especially damaging. Even if the next President isn’t anti-STEM there’s no way to train new scientists and engineers overnight, especially when a lot of institutional knowledge has been purged, and private industry hires a ton of the people who are trained on those grants to the extent of having major facilities near key universities just to better compete for graduates.
If that’s not happening here, those companies are going to reconsider investing in the United States at all versus cheaper countries like China which are investing in STEM.
This is a real and important challenge, which is even further exacerbated if you work on microbial organisms. I can easily think of a half dozen times in my own research where we tracked down differences in phenotype between ostensibly isogenic strains from different labs that turned out to be the result of in lab evolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/well/us-measles-record-ou...