Letters and Testimony to Congress and the Trump Administration

Recent letters and testimony to Congress from the AERA and from Congress to the administration.

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  AERA Issues Testimony to Senate Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee
  June 13, 2025
  
  In a testimony, AERA expressed concern over proposed cuts & a call for robust investments to ensure the vitality of the National Science Foundation and Census Bureau.

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  AERA Issues Testimony to House Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee
  May 9, 2025
  
  In appropriations testimony, AERA Executive Director Felice Levine registered “shock and concern” about DOGE’s “unbridled attacks on the NSF and its mission as an independent agency to advance all science.” She called on Congress to examine this assault—now directed to education science and other social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

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  Members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Send Letter to Acting Director of the National Science Foundation
  May 8, 2025
  
  Members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology sent a letter to Brian Stone, Acting Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) demanding answers on how decisions are being made at NSF.