Donald Trump’s administration laid off 170 employees at the National Science Foundation in February as part of a government-wide staff reduction. Critics say the cuts, which included artificial intelligence specialists,

Science faculty members from universities protest Trump cuts through the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

As cars slowed and passing drivers honked in support, demonstrators chanted “Fund facts not felons,” “No science, no beer,” “Progress over profits,” and “Fund science, save lives.”