Glucksmann cited efforts by President [Donald Trump]( https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/politics/donald-trump ) and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to reduce the federal workforce, including the dismissal of scientists, researchers, and public health professionals.
"If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovations, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world's leading power, then we're going to welcome them," Glucksmann said, according to _AFP_.