Trump administration moves to solidify political control
The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants, and in doing so is seeking to codify tighter political control of federally funded research.
The changes, laid out in a 400-plus-page document published this week, would deemphasize the role of peer review in determining what work to fund, limit the ability for scientists to use federal funds to publish their research or travel to conferences, and offer political appointees more latitude to terminate grants at will.
The suite of proposed changes aligns in many respects with policies the administration has attempted to implement through executive orders and one-off announcements, sometimes at individual agencies; if formalized, the revised regulation would be in effect across the government and put the regulatory authority of the White House behind it.
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