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Trump Administration Can’t Cite Changed Priorities to Terminate Grants
The ruling limits the Trump administration’s power to cancel research and other funding based on the Office of Management and Budget’s termination clause. OMB’s proposed rule may change that.
An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters last week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal government.”
A Rare Moment of Unity for a Disparate Sector
The OMB wants to hand grant-making power to political appointees, and for once, higher ed is pushing back together.
We Need a New Science Funding Playbook
Researchers can borrow from the start-up world to sustain science as a public good.
Universities Warn Against Rule on Political Control of Grants
The White House’s plan to cement political appointees’ control over research and other grants received hundreds of thousands of comments. Lawsuits are likely next.
Under New Policy, NSF Won’t Fund Research Involving Chinese Scientists
Comments Flood OMB Proposal to Cement Political Control of Grants
The White House Office of Management and Budget has so far received 90,000 public comments on its plans as scientific and other groups rally against them.
NEH, Beaten in Court, Asks Grant Recipients if They Still Want Awards
A judge ruled that the termination of more than 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants was unconstitutional. Now comes the process of reinstating these projects.