@spujb Well that's a bit hysterical.

Funding issues like this are pretty common. I know of one that happened a couple of times just last year, not to mention over the course of the past couple of administrations, and that's just the ones I know about personally.

No, it's not the end of science in America, and if science had been so fully captured by government, that would be pretty bad for science in the first place.

No, that's not how that works. And people talking in terms like this are not going to be convincing to folks who actually know how government works, how science and research works.