Guess we'll have a lot of NIMBY behaviour. As long as funding gets cut in fields that don't pertain to one's own. I must admit i quickly glanced at the potential victims of this funding cut and my possible outrage quickly disappeared after i realised it likely will not affect any of my US collaborators.

We had funding cuts recently in Korea that got partially reversed after pushback from academia. I think the consensus was that cuts were warranted but it had to be done in an orderly and organised manner and not at the whims of a mentally unstable politician who got his advice from his wife's shaman~~