A conservative organization that basically wants to legislate morality has compiled a list of 200 academics, and is pushing it to the government to get funding revoked. Apparently, the list is being taken seriously.
There's almost no better way to totally destroy the innovation capacity of the US than to break the infrastructure for research finance.
This is exactly what happened in almost every Third World country that's become a theocracy or dictatorship: the universities were the first targets of the 'moral majority'.