A federal judge in California, Rita Lin, has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate funding for nearly 300 research grants at UCLA administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The ruling responds to the Trump administration’s suspension of about 800 grants from NSF, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Energy, totaling $584 million, in late July.

The big picture: Judge Lin determined that suspending these grants violated a preliminary injunction issued in June that barred blanket terminations of grants. • Lin emphasized there is no meaningful difference between terminating a grant and suspending it indefinitely in this context, as both cause research to halt and lead to cuts in research staff and graduate student positions. • The “critical w

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