Beyond the drastic changes to research funding in the new OMB rules the regulation is universal legal framework governing every federal grant to every recipient of every federal government agency:
Medicaid
Transportation
Education
Food assistance & more
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- A highway already under construction.
- A tribal health program mid-delivery.
- A city still rebuilding from a flood.
And every new grant program must align w/administration priorities before a single application is even solicited.
Entire categories of funding can be quietly discontinued without a public announcement or a vote.
Federal grants are not peripheral to how states and communities function. They represent, on average, 36 cents of every dollar a state spends.
This rule puts that entire financial partnership between the federal government and the states under political control, without an act of Congress, effective October 1, 2026.
A young scientist referred to the classic film star as “Carrie Grant” and- since I’m GenX- I immediately thought of a horrible grant proposal.
Did I coin a new phrase? Lmk
This means political appointees who can override expert judgment & block science grants that don’t advance the President’s priorities would have that same power over all federal agencies
- Any active grant could be canceled mid-project because it no longer serves ‘the national interest.’
Urgent! This proposal will destroy US science.
“A form letter is far less effective … OMB can dismiss 100K identical comments as a single comment. A single well-argued comment …explaining exactly how a specific provision would harm a specific type of research carries far more weight.”
🔥Please act!
