The White House terminated all members of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, according to reporting by Nature and Science. The NSF has a nearly $9 billion annual budget and is among the top federal funders of university research. The board has 25 members at full capacity. A message from the Presidential Personnel Office notified members that their positions were terminated effective immediately. NSF’s head of media affairs, Mike England, directed questions to the White House. The change arrives amid budget pressure: the president’s proposed next fiscal-year budget would cut more than half of NSF’s funding, though Congress rejected a similarly drastic cut for this year. For universities and research teams, the governance shake-up adds uncertainty to NSF’s oversight structure as congressional and budget battles continue.