Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
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- #peer review
- #grant funding
- #US science policy
- Trump administration executive order in August aimed to shift grant funding control from peer reviewers to political appointees.
- The order faced legal challenges, leading OMB to merge it with other priorities and initiate formal federal rulemaking to avoid being vacated.
- New rules make peer review secondary, allow agencies to cancel grants based on vague 'national interest' claims, and ban culture war topic grants.
- Rules also limit international collaborations and block spending on publishing papers and attending conferences.
- OMB centralizes grantmaking rules, turning guidance into rules, with process involving public feedback and final publication in the Federal Register.