Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought addresses 'big, beautiful bill' critics' concerns about raising the national deficit on 'The Story.'

At the frenetic pace of the Trump administration wins, it’s easy to lose sight of smaller but still important successes. The administration just terminated a contract, and let three others lapse, with Springer Nature.  

Springer Nature is an academic publishing company which includes a consortium of science publications. Funding such a thing may seem innocuous, but Springer is a behemoth in the scientific publishing world and prone to error and politicized decision-making. 

As Brian Flood reported at Fox News in late June, "The German-owned Springer Nature was forced to issue 2,923 retractions in 2024, according to Retraction Watch. The publishing giant has also been accused of significantly downplaying the COVID lab-leak theory and censoring content to appease the Chinese government. It also has a peer review process that critics believe is dominated by woke groupthink." 

TRUMP ADMIN ENDS CONTRACTS WITH PUBLISHING GIANT SPRINGER NATURE AMID BIAS, CHINA CONCERNS

Springer has long been considered a company dedicated to political goals and not scientific ones. Their journals had spent much of the pandemic downplaying the

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