Trump’s OMB rule won’t destroy American science. It will rescue taxpayer-funded research
Recommended Stories Trump’s OMB rule won’t destroy American science. It will rescue taxpayer-funded research Remember who met the moment Veterans need cures, not research roadblocks This panic gets the rule backward. OMB’s proposal is the most serious effort in a generation to restore lawful stewardship, transparency, and accountability to taxpayers.The senators claim OMB lacks authority and is usurping Congress’s power of the purse.
- ▪Recommended Stories Trump’s OMB rule won’t destroy American science.
- ▪It will rescue taxpayer-funded research Remember who met the moment Veterans need cures, not research roadblocks This panic gets the rule backward.
- ▪OMB’s proposal is the most serious effort in a generation to restore lawful stewardship, transparency, and accountability to taxpayers.The senators claim OMB lacks authority and is usurping Congress’s power of the purse.
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Washington’s grant-industrial complex has discovered a new theory: Once Congress appropriates money, unelected reviewers and recipients, and not executive officials accountable for administering the law, should control where it goes.That is the premise behind a letter written by Senate Democrats demanding that the Office of Management and Budget withdraw its governmentwide grant reforms to Part 200, a Washington Post article warning that the rule could end scientific dominance, and a note that the rule change proposal is creating a new patronage system. Recommended Stories Trump’s OMB rule won’t destroy American science. It will rescue taxpayer-funded research Remember who met the moment Veterans need cures, not research roadblocks This panic gets the rule backward.
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