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American science leaders have warned against threatening more changes in politics and financing discounts by the Trump administration, saying that the disorder risks undermining health care and decisive research.

The CEO of The America said that Congress is working on a deadline on March 14 for a draft spending law for the next fiscal year, which could be the following month “one of the most important in the history of science and technology” in the United States. Science Affairs Association.

President Donald Trump and its advisor, Elon Musk, are seeking to reduce trillions of the federal budget, including through swinging cuts to government jobs.

They have already been cut off Billions of dollars in research financing And thousands of jobs in agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, the National Oceanic Administration and Air cover, which concerns AAAS.

“We must stay together as a society because it will become harsh,” said Bugson’s annual conference at the annual conference of Al Qaeda in Boston.

International ties will be damaged through the American withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The AAAS meeting heard that Trump’s actions will undermine global cooperation in areas ranging from public health to space exploration, with scientists from other countries from studying and working in the United States.

“We have a shortage of scientific leadership. Decision -making is paralyzed and critical work does not advance,” said Monica Bergenoli, who was the director of the National Institutes of Health until Trump’s inauguration.

She said that many activities of the National Health Institutes that were already planned and funded were suspended. The expansion of access to the National Library of Medicine, the largest vital medical database in the world, and the targeted programs to improve the health of women and disadvantaged groups.

Willie May, head of AAAS and head of research at Morgan State University in Maryland, said scientific and technological research was at risk of talent loss in other fields.

“Chaos and rhetoric already affect. Many scientists tell us early that they are now wondering whether they should continue to follow functions in science.”

Some Trump dates, such as the new Minister of Health Robert F. Scientists were not convinced of Kennedy’s assurances of Senate members in a confirmation session last week that he was “not hostile to writing or fighting industry” but “pro -safety”.

“Some people who lead the scientific endeavor are wrong. Let me say this clearly – Robert F. Kennedy Junior is not the right person to lead the Ministry of Health.”

“Treating the disease. It requires a certain fact, requires science.” “We will discover ways as a scientific community to enhance health, regardless of those in these leadership positions.”

Last week, the British Medical Journal published an unknown article by a “horror” federal researcher. Essay The Trump administration was accused of “digital genocide” by removing any mention of the advocacy, bias, gender, diversity, arrows and inclusion (Dei), as well as all references to the weak groups in grants and scientific papers.

Professor Maria Billain, President of the European Union’s European Union Research Council, told the United States at the conference: “Those who appreciate the spirit of discovery need a strong protest.”

Berin added that other countries should ignore “sarcastic voices that say we can recover some of our scholars from the United States.” “This is completely missing and the price is very high.”

DEI initiatives in science and medicine have also been canceled. “How can we adhere to our values ​​of creating a comprehensive scientific process with the new restrictions that are placed on us?. Requires a new design to protect our work,” said May, who grew up in a poor black family in Alabama.

With the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, AAAS revealed International strategy To defend science through diplomacy “in the era of turmoil.”

“We will work hard with our university partners, with patient organizations, with our industry partners.” “I don’t want us on our background. I want us to retrieve the narration.”