President Donald Trump displays an executive order on artificial intelligence he signed at the “Winning the AI Race” AI Summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)
The White House released five federal priorities for fiscal year 2027. They come as administration actions face backlash from scientists and researchers.
The second-in-command in Trump’s Office of Science and Technology Policy announced her departure Tuesday. OSTP’s Dean Ball also recently left the office.
The remarks from Michael Kratsios follow the administration’s termination of grants at the National Science Foundation that don’t align with its policies.
President Donald Trump, joined by Michael Kratsios, signs a presidential memo for continued testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-drones, at his Oval Office desk Oct. 25, 2017. (White House / Shealah Craighead)
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 11: Arati Prabhakar (R), the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, arrives to a classified all-Senate briefing on Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. Briefers included members from the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Office of Science and Technology Policy disagreed with the watchdog’s recommendation that it should inform agencies about their status as implementing agencies with regulatory authority.