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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. It's just over 100 days into the second

Trump administration, and some Republicans in the largely blue state of Colorado are praising the president's swift pace of change in Washington.

Colorado Public Radio's Benta Berklin has more.

Frank Virginia is a retired small business owner and lives in the foothills west of Denver.

The Republican voted for Trump.

He's pleased with the administration's immigration crackdown

and efforts to cut government spending. And he's okay with the tariffs, despite the turmoil.

But he is concerned about the stock market. But at this point in the process, I'm still comfortable

in supporting the president and his policies, hoping that over the next four, five months, things will even out.

Virginia says he doesn't want Democrats to be disruptive to Trump's agenda just for the sake of pushing back.

For NPR News, I'm Benta Berkland in Denver.

Turmoyle continues at the National Science Foundation.

This government agency is a major funder of basic science research, a lot of it at colleges and universities across the country. But as NPR's

Nell-Greenfield-Boise reports, lately it's been canceling previously approved grants.

A spokesperson for NSF says that 344 grants had just been terminated as they were,

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