DOGE has been devastating to scientific research and it can't realistically be immediately reversed. When an arbitrary redection of the nembers of scientists working on a goal happens their research will continue somewhere else....like maybe China? We won't flly understand the damage this crazy DOGE is doing to the U.S. for decades and when we do it will be too late to catch back up. The United States will be a major leader in science and technology only as long as our leaders are not controlled by political ideology. When science and technology must comply with ideology as it does right now in the U.S. we will just start falling farther and farther behind. CPresident Xi probably had a good laugh when he heard about DOGE!