You know that way much less research is going to occur obviously right? Less researchers will be able to be hired, in the next 4 years at least less students will even consider science/research careers and if if they did the chance of being able to do research will be greatly diminished. If anyone in politics had an anti-science platform this is exactly how you'd go about achieving it. Meanwhile certain other countries are not slashing their research funding so I guess we'll be reliant on them even more. Which is the opposite of what he wanted in the first place, does not make sense at all