US scientists feeling ‘stress and fear’ as sweeping Trump orders hit funding

Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders

Scientists around the US have described experiencing distress, disruption to their work and interruption of payments in the chaos following Donald Trump's executive orders affecting federal grant money.

Among the funds caught in limbo in recent days were millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated research awards and grants across the vast networks of publicly funded scientific departments at universities, businesses and non-profits across the country.