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DOGE Hits NIST, Sparks Industry Concerns

TIA raised concerns about National Institute of Standards and Technology firings on Thursday; CCIA, SIIA, ITIF and TechNet weighed in today

Jericho Casper

Jericho Casper

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DOGE Hits NIST, Sparks Industry Concerns
Photo of U.S. President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, from the Department of Commerce

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2025 – The Commerce Department terminated more than 70 employees at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on March 3, part of President Donald Trump’s broader federal workforce purge, which has already ousted tens of thousands of civil servants.

The NIST terminations, first reported by NextGov and Politico, came just days before Trump vowed to dismantle the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act in his State of the Union address. That’s likely to undermine the agency responsible for implementing key provisions of the bipartisan law, which allocated $50 billion to bolster U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research.

NIST also plays a ministerial role in the implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law that is run by National Telecommunications and Information Administration, another Commerce Department agency.

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