@guardian Well a whole lot of us are also experiencing the tremendously negative impacts of administration, ranging from economic issues through ways that his executive orders have interfered with scientific missions in the country.

It's not just poll numbers. The poll numbers might be reflecting the lived experiences that we are encountering under this administration, the ways in which he is directly responsible for harming prosperity throughout the US.

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Actually, let me say it more directly: I know a lot of people working at US research labs who have been very frustrated with the orders coming out of the administration, up to orders for them to flat out halt their scientific work to deal with bureaucratic hurdles put in their way.

A lot of this is stuff that has never come up under previous administrations. And it's frustrating to the researchers because they feel like their scientific missions are either not understood or not valued under this administration.

And I know a lot of them wish there was more awareness about this in the public so that there could be accountability and maybe a change in policy.

Under Biden there's been a tremendous shift of resources out of fundamental research and into political goals in ways that the public just doesn't see.

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