Last week I offered an amendment to restore the over 1500 grants that have been terminated by this administration at the National Science Foundation. Every single state represented on this committee has had funding canceled. That includes Nearly $18 million in grants previously awarded by NSF to universities in Wisconsin [have been canceled]. These were research projects focused on increasing women's participation in STEM fields, middle school engagements in mathematics and researching bioethical impacts in genomics. (00:21–00:29)
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Asserts that nearly $18 million in NSF grants to Wisconsin universities have been canceled.
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