$7.5B plan for California science agency free from Trump’s influence will go to voters
California voters will decide on a $7.5 billion plan to create a state-funded science and health research agency, intended to operate independently of federal political influence.
California could create its own multi-billion-dollar science and health research agency under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday, helping to fill a gap left by the politicization of science under the second Trump administration. Voters will decide in a year and a half whether to fund the idea, which the University of California...
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