Here’s a way you can make a difference today: Write to your elected officials and urge them to protect research funding in the Congressional budget process. President Trump’s ongoing attacks on research funding are part of an extinction-level threat to higher education. Slashing this funding means ending life-saving research projects, shuttering labs, laying off faculty and staff, curtailing undergraduate research opportunities, cutting graduate programs, and stunting the next generation of scientists. It will also have devastating effects throughout our institutions as research funding cuts will further squeeze already tight budgets. The president demanded steep funding cuts for most federal research programs in his 2026 budget proposal. But we don’t have to accept them, and Congress doesn’t either. Federal research investment saves lives, grows the economy, and supports students. Polling shows that most Americans agree. Write a letter now. And click here if you’d like to meet with lawmakers to talk about the impact of science funding on students, universities, jobs, and communities. We’re working with a wide coalition of labor and science organizations to educate Members of Congress about why research is worth saving. The campaign’s next phase will be Zoom meetings in key districts and a Hill Day in Washington, D.C. In solidarity, Todd Wolfson, AAUP President