Chris Smith: “I can assure each of you it was something I thought I would never witness.”

If the U.S. also retreats due to limits on working with foreign scientists, it could jeopardize the whole future of high-energy physics.

They will drop out. You have priced them out of higher education.

We must act now, and we must act decisively. The lives of so many lie in the balance.

It is the absolute critical node on their path to sovereignty, security, and sustained democracy.