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OMB Proposed Rule 2026-0034 will kill science in the US

Former NIH Program Official Elizabeth Ginexi recently sounded the alarm about the OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule that would overhaul how federal grants and funding would be allocated by requiring federal grant decisions to be made by political appointees rather than by career scientific experts Dr. Ginexi  has since followed up, noting that this goes further than science, and this rule would actually revise the “universal legal framework governing every federal grant to every recipient across every agency in the federal government”. Every program, from Medicaid to education, to food assistance would be subject to the whims of political appointees who could block grants and funding because it wouldn’t serve the “national interest” of the President. Advocacy group StandUpForScience held an Emergency Science Meeting to discuss the ramifications and consequences of the implementation of the new proposed rule - the consensus is that it would be disastrous for current and future progress across all fields. We would be experiencing DOGE 2.0.