Alex Tabarrok is correct: this is a bad stuff. As has happened before, the Trump people have fingered something that needs improvement--the scientific funding process--and are trying to implement measures, including political loyalty tests, that will make the situation vastly worse.
OMB, joined by some forty grantmaking agencies—NSF, HHS, DOE, NASA, DOD among them—has proposed a sweeping rewrite of the rules governing all federal grants, the Regulation for Federal Financial Assis...
