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NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin

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Sethuraman Panchanathan , the director of the National Science Foundation , abruptly resigned Thursday .

He did not cite a reason for his departure, which comes as 16 months are left in his six-year term.

The NSF is facing a 55-percent cut to its $9 billion annual budget and a mass layoff of half of its 1,700 -person staff.

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