White House moves to give political appointees more power over federal grants
The proposal would let senior appointees overrule expert panels and could let agencies terminate grants tied to presidential priorities.
- On Thursday, the White House released a more than 400-page proposal giving political appointees final approval authority over federal research grants, scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Friday.
- The Office of Management and Budget , led by Russell Vought, claims the plan corrects a "woke" policy agenda under President Joe Biden that "wasted a great amount of taxpayer resources and caused great harm to public trust."
- Scientific peer review at the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation would become advisory, as the proposal states "senior appointees must conduct these reviews and apply specific principles when evaluating proposals."
- Public comment on the proposed regulations lasts 45 days, a period Matt Owens, president of the Council on Government Relations, called "unusually short" for wide-ranging changes affecting more than 150 research universities.
- Rules authorize officials to terminate existing awards for research deemed inappropriate, a power Colette Delawalla, founder of the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science, warned constitutes "government overreach" risking the nation's scientific ecosystem.
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