Devastating is an understatement. This would ensure US social science would barely be a shell of itself for the foreseeable future, if ever back to its current status ever again.

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD(umpamdk.bsky.social): The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...