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The Trump administration has proposed what experts are calling “an unprecedented shift” in the way the federal government determines how to distribute grant funding.The most significant change proposed by the Office of Management and Budget would be a move away from the peer review process to a system that allows political appointees to decide what should be funded. The proposal would
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The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.

The Office of Management and Budget’s proposed change would give political appointees carte blanche over government grants.

A newly proposed rule would change the structure of how federal grants are reviewed and awarded, with downstream effects on…

The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order…

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

Intent is to cut DEI, but scientists see a dystopian, anti-science power grab