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Head Start for the tiniest learners at risk as Trump’s budget takes shape
The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age three
in home-based child-care centers.
Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump’s administration’s proposed year one budget.

Inside Chicago homes, Head Start for the tiniest learners at risk as Trump’s budget takes shape
The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age three in home-based child-care centers. Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump’s administration’s proposed year one budget.

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-budget-135m-dhs-2026-house-appropriations/

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

Trump Hides $40 Million for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Deep In House Budget Bill, Includes Oversized Christopher Columbus Statue That May Sit on Sacred Native American Land
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/09/trump-hides-40-million-for-garden-of-heroes-deep-in-house-budget-bill-includes-oversized-christopher-columbus-statue-that-may-sit-on-sacred-native-american-land/

Découvrez l'enquête en France sur les violences et abus sexuels au sein d'une communauté bouddhiste, suite Š l'affaire OKC en Belgique. En savoir plus ici : https://chardonsbleus.org/affaire-okc-

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NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

NIH Director Struggles To Defend His Own Plan To Slash $18 Billion In Medical Research (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nih-director-struggles-defend-billions-budget-cuts_n_68433f27e4b004bd540a815a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p158#a250610p158

Closure of the sea surface height budget with a Stokes offset
J\"orn Callies, Charly de Marez, Jinbo Wang, Bruce Haines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06956

Closure of the sea surface height budget with a Stokes offset
The sea surface height budget, obtained by integrating hydrostatic balance over the water column, relates sea surface height variations to variations of the seafloor pressure, density in the water column, and atmospheric surface pressure. This budget is crucial for calibrating and interpreting satellite altimetry measurements. It only holds once non-hydrostatic surface gravity waves are averaged out, however, which complicates an observational closure of the budget. Using data from the Californ…

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was quickly met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday
by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles,
fire key military leaders
and purge diversity programs.
They expressed bipartisan frustration that Congress has not yet gotten a full defense budget from the Trump administration.
“Your tenure as secretary has been marked by endless chaos,”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Hegseth.

Hegseth faces Democrats in Congress for first time since Signal leaks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who demanded details on his moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles. Lawmakers also expressed bipartisan frustration Tuesday that Congress doesn't yet have a full defense budget from the Trump administration. The hearing before the House Appropriations defense subcommittee was the first time lawmakers have been able to challenge Trump’s defense chief directly. After persistent questioning about the cost …

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting, along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment, pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences, who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.