If there is a good reason, the administration is welcome to communicate to the public. This is reportedly a democracy, after all.

We do know what's going on because they wrote all of this down including their motives and end goals well before the elections.

I started a company that makes a bunch of many every year based off of NSF research, and Nvidia is making even more based on our work that spun out. I'm not a unique story, yet they cut half the NSF budget and half the NSF-funded STEM grad students (NSF GRFP, ...).

So no, whatever the NSF was doing, we should be encouraging more of it, not half of it. NSF/NIH are much more valuable investments than billionaire tax cuts as they're some of the most valuable things humanity can be doing in general, dollar-for-dollar.

I try to avoid Left/Right topics, but as others point out, this one is more like Russian Talking Points for US Special Interest Groups, and beyond being anti-american, is anti-human.

Don't cry because [the United States has decided to turn its back on science and research and foreign aid], smile because we were great once :)

You didn't say "I'm glad you had those things". And if that's what you meant, then you are listening to this person's story as some personal tale of nostalgia instead of a reflection on what is being broken in our country.

You’re getting downvoted because of your childlike naïveté and/or willful ignorance. There is no hidden “very good reason” lurking somewhere. They are slashing and burning the federal government.