一位关键民主党人正在调查一大笔拨款给国家科学基金会（NSF）但据报未被使用的资金。众议院科学、空间和技术委员会首席议员佐伊·洛夫格伦（民主党-加利福尼亚州）在一封首先与《国会山报》分享的信中指责该基金会违反了“国会的财政大权以及我们宪法体制中正当的权力分立”，此前有报道称，该基金会2026财年20%的研究预算未被支出。
A key Democrat is looking into a massive amount of money that was appropriated to the National Science Foundation (NSF) but reportedly not spent. In a letter first shared with The Hill, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology ranking member Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) accused the foundation of violating “Congress’ power of the purse and the rightful separation of powers in our constitutional system” after a report that 20 percent of its research budget went unspent in fiscal 2026.
洛夫格伦的信件是对《纽约时报》一篇报道的跟进，该报道称国家科学基金会扣留了国会为研究拨付的14亿美元。《时报》援引两名知情人士报道称，特朗普政府希望将这笔资金重新定向用于包括人工智能和量子计算在内的优先事项。这位女众议员还表示，国家科学基金会员工曾告诉她的工作人员，该机构计划花用这笔资金，但她后来得知这笔钱被挪作他用。
Lofgren’s letter follows up on a New York Times report saying that the NSF withheld $1.4 billion appropriated by Congress for research. The Times reported, citing two people, that the Trump administration wants to redirect the money to priorities including AI and quantum computing. The congresswoman also said NSF employees had told her staff the agency planned to spend the money that she later learned was repurposed.
“该机构告诉委员会工作人员，由于拨款到位较晚，其进度落后，但它完全打算在财年结束前赶上授奖进度，”她写道。“后续报道传达的信息是，国家科学基金会不打算将其全部研究预算发放给全国的研究人员，而是打算转移相当大一部分资金，以推进特朗普政府未公开的优先事项，”她补充道。“数月来，关于国家科学基金会对其研究预算意图的最可靠信息来源是新闻媒体，而非该机构以及在国会作证的政府官员。”
“The agency told Committee Staff that it was behind schedule because of late appropriations, but that it had every intention of catching up on award-making by the end of the fiscal year,” she wrote. “Subsequent reporting conveyed that NSF did not intend to distribute its full research budget to researchers across the country, but rather intended to divert a significant portion of its funding to advance unknown Trump Administration priorities,” she added. “For months, the most reliable source of information regarding NSF’s intentions for its research budget was the press, rather than the agency and the administration officials testifying about it before Congress.”
洛夫格伦在本周的信中向这家独立机构提出了一系列问题，包括其是否打算花用这笔资金、如何管理这些资金，以及是否收到过白宫的任何指示。
Lofgren, in her letter this week, asked the independent agency a series of questions including whether it intends to spend the money, how it is managing the funds and whether it received any direction from the White House.
虽然民主党目前处于少数党地位，洛夫格伦的调查权力有限，但如果她的政党在下周的中期选举后重夺众议院控制权，她将获得重要权力，可用于进一步调查该问题。民主党委员会工作人员告诉《国会山报》，他们一直在进行的监督工作将延续到下一届国会。
While she holds limited investigative power now with Democrats in the minority, Lofgren stands to gain significant authorities, which she could use to further probe the issue, if her party takes back the House following next week's midterms. Democratic committee staff told The Hill that the oversight work they have been doing will continue into the next Congress.
美国国家科学基金会（NSF）是一个独立机构，主要通过拨款资助支持科学研究。它提供约四分之一的联邦资金，用于支持美国大学的研究。发言人迈克·英格兰告诉《纽约时报》，该机构“结转资金，投资于与更广泛政府倡议一致的机构优先事项。”他说，该基金会“依然致力于投资于各科学和工程领域具有价值的基础研究，以推进美国的科学领导地位。”
NSF is an independent agency that supports scientific research, primarily through grant funding. It supplies about a quarter of the federal support for research at U.S. universities. Spokesperson Mike England told the Times that the agency “carried over funds to invest in agency priorities that are aligned with broader administration initiatives.”He said the foundation “remains committed to investing in meritorious foundational research across the sciences and engineering that advances American scientific leadership.”
去年，匿名工作人员指控称，在该机构，“一项隐秘且意识形态驱动的二级审查流程，由不合格的政治任命官员执行，正在干预基于科学优劣的评审体系。”
Last year, anonymous staffers alleged that at the agency, “a covert and ideologically driven secondary review process by unqualified political appointees is now interfering with the scientific merit-based review system.”