{"id":12857425,"date":"2026-02-08T22:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12857425"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:40:36","slug":"trump-cut-science-funding-small-businesses-are-paying-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-cut-science-funding-small-businesses-are-paying-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cut science funding. Small businesses are paying the price."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"pt-5 sm:pt-[1.875rem]\" data-testid=\"article-lead-summary\">\n<h2 class=\"mt-2 text-2xl font-bold leading-[1.12] tracking-[-.02rem] sm:leading-none sm:tracking-[-.05rem] md:text-[1.75rem] lg:text-[2.5rem]\" data-testid=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-cut-science-funding-now-small-businesses-are-paying-the-price-00765051?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user\/politico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump cut science funding. Small businesses are paying the price.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>Some federal contractors are feeling the squeeze after the president slashed support for climate programs and other research efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-cut-science-funding-now-small-businesses-are-paying-the-price-00765051?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user\/politico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"uppercase hover:text-current\">Chelsea Harvey, Politico<\/span><\/a><time datetime=\"2026-02-08T14:00:00.000-05:00\"><\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-first-paragraph font-text text-lg leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]\" data-v-a500cf4d=\"\">Melinda Holland started last year with high hopes for her business. Instead, 2025 ended with the company\u2019s first layoffs in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s due largely to the policies of one man: President Donald Trump. The cuts his administration made last year to federal science programs undercut a key piece of Holland\u2019s business, a small technology company named Wildlife Computers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-cut-science-funding-now-small-businesses-are-paying-the-price-00765051?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user\/politico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Holland started last year with high hopes for her business. Instead, 2025 ended with the company\u2019s first layoffs in 40 years. That\u2019s due largely to the policies of one man: President Donald Trump. The cuts his administration made last year to federal science programs undercut a key piece of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12857427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26922,21,1,12,25391,26281,26295],"tags":[371,858,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-12857425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market-news","8":"category-available","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-phils-favorites","11":"category-members-corner","12":"category-sciences","13":"category-technology","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12857425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857911,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857425\/revisions\/12857911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12857427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12857425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12857425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12857425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}