Of course. Why spend money when assets can simply be taken.
If funding doesn't hold up and staff is cut to the bone an institution's assets can be taken for other purposes. Dare I say, data centers?
Supercomputers are everywhere in the federal government. Why buy them when all that can simply be taken?
June 2, 2026
By John Timmer...In December, (click here) the Trump administration abruptly announced it would shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a Boulder, Colorado-based facility that helps researchers perform studies of weather, climate, atmospheric chemistry, and more. The news came as a shock, given that the government had never identified serious deficiencies in the management of NCAR and its associated supercomputing center in Wyoming.
Nevertheless, the government ordered the University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages NCAR on behalf of the National Science Foundation, to help it prepare to transfer the Wyoming facility to a different operator. UCAR sued the government and, on Monday, won a preliminary injunction that places the transfer of the facility on hold....
First it was weather balloons and now it is ocean monitors. Just take it.
June 1, 2026
By Eric Niiler
The Trump administration (click here) is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
The National Science Foundation said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than 900 deep-sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea....
There is no paper trail for the receipts into the parks. Just take the money. If the parks aren't making money then they will have to be privatized in order for them to be maintained. Trump is skimming the money from the parks to pay for his 250 anniversary celebration. So. If there is no funding coming from the national parks, will there actually be a 250 year national celebration?
June 2, 2026
By Amada Gilbert
Park officials said (click here) the reservation system remains necessary because of the park's high visitation levels and smaller size compared with other major national parks.
The timed-entry system is now in its seventh year at Rocky Mountain National Park. According to Public Affairs Officer Kyle Patterson, the park continues to see some of the highest visitation numbers in the National Park System.
"We're about the fifth or sixth most visited," Patterson said.
While parks such as Yosemite, Arches and Glacier have ended their reservation systems, Patterson said Rocky Mountain National Park faces unique challenges.
"We're about one-ninth the landmass of Yellowstone and one-fifth the landmass of Yosemite, and we see about the same level of visitation," Patterson said. "So we know it is even more concentrated at Rocky than other parks."...
