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Recent Examples of defund
Vought spoke openly about the ongoing planning to defund independent federal agencies and demonize government scientists.
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Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
Perhaps most dramatically, calls to defund the police became an essential part of the conversations.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2025
The administration has forced the National Institutes of Health to defund research that focuses on LGBTQ populations—including several projects dedicated to HIV—as well as projects that mention vaccine hesitancy.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Congress would need to pass a law to repeal or defund it.
—Devon Akmon, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
Perhaps most dramatically, calls to defund the police became an essential part of the conversations.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2025
The administration has forced the National Institutes of Health to defund research that focuses on LGBTQ populations—including several projects dedicated to HIV—as well as projects that mention vaccine hesitancy.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Congress would need to pass a law to repeal or defund it.
—Devon Akmon, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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