Some of what Trump cut is problematic - like research relating to climate or certain medical research. But other research like those relating to DEI or gender were ideological and wasteful. Europe may end up attracting a lot of researchers who were performing the more activist research caught up in these political battles. If so, I doubt it’ll make much difference in terms of useful research produced in the US versus Europe.

I do wonder how they’ll fund this though. European countries aren’t exactly wealthy enough (nor is the US) to spend money on enormous new research programs. How will they decide how much funding to redirect away from other government agencies to this? How will they decide which researchers and which areas to fund and which to reject?