WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and 22 colleagues in demanding answers from President Trump and Acting Head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Brian Stone on why the president dismissed all members of the NSF's National Science Board (NSB), the advisory group that governs the agency.
President Trump's mass firing of NSB members follows a pattern of his administration terminating medical and scientific advisors, including the NSF's outside advisory committees and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) vaccine advisor...