Maybe but isn't France cutting back on research funding? Their economy has been struggling as of recent, they're still below the 2008 peak <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/fra/france/gdp-per-capita#:~:text=France%20gdp%20per%20capita%20for%202022%20was%20%2440%2C886%2C%20a%206.38,a%203.25%25%20decline%20from%202019." rel="nofollow">https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/fra/fra...</a><p>Further I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research, they're more likely to cancel gender/DEI research, which isn't exactly regarded as especially high quality research (even if it's only 10-15 million in funding)