WATCH: Trump cuts Iowa cancer and defense research funding (Part 3) – Cornhole Champions #27

The Trump Administration has terminated over 1,600 research grants nationwide, cutting more than $1.5 billion in federal funding and leaving Iowa’s research universities scrambling to save critical projects.

On this episode of Cornhole Champions, Zachary Oren Smith, Amie Rivers, and Avery Staker talk about how these massive cuts are devastating Iowa’s scientific infrastructure.

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*SHOW RUNDOWN:*
00:30 – Cancer Research Gets the Axe – University of Iowa Professor’s Pancreatic Cancer Study Terminated
01:30 – “Diverse” Triggers Grant Termination – How One Word Killed Research Grant
02:30 – Foreign Disinformation Studies Cut – $1.7 Million Grant Protecting Americans Canceled
04:30 – Innovation Infrastructure Under Attack – Why R&D Labs Can’t Just “Turn Back On”
06:30 – America’s Scientific Brain Drain – Scientists Leaving as US

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