Pure retribution,” one NSF staffer said of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. “We as a nation are shooting ourselves in both feet.”

The cut to Harvard’s federal funding was again linked to alleged failures to tackle antisemitism, and brings the total losses in recent weeks to over $2.7 billion.

The Trump administration is pulling another $60 million in grants from Harvard University as it says the Ivy League school is failing to address discrimination.