Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers
NEW YORK (AP) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development.
The order requires all federal agencies, including FEMA, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, to appoint officials responsible for reviewing federal funding opportunities and grants, so that they “are consistent with agency priorities and the national interest.”
It also requires agencies to make it so that current and future federal grants can be terminated at any time — including during the grant period itself.
Agencies cannot announce new funding opportunities until the new protocols are in place, according to the order.
The Trump administration said these changes are part of an effort to “strengthen oversight” and “streamline agency grantmaking.” Scientists say the order will cripple America’s scientific engine by placing control over federal research funds in the hands of people who are influenced by politics and lack relevant expertise.
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They assassinated John F. Kennedy, but this dunce, who is literally the worst president in U.S. history by at least 2 orders of magnitude, somehow keeps trucking along, burning the nation down as he goes.
Ever consider that it's the same people putting gas in the tank?
Dangit Dale, nobody wants to hear your theories about JFK.
Pocket Epstein List!
In all fairness, we don't know if he ever stopped. You may be overly generous with use of the past tense.
"I used to fuck children. I still do, but I used to, too."
A president can fuck kids for free.... as long as it's a duck!
Yes the funding cuts to child health research will be devastating to chil…oh wait
What a fucking surprise PedoProtectorParty
Just another distraction from the Epstein files.
It's much worse than that. It's a policy that will crater the US's scientific community and have devastating consequences for decades as the brain drain accelerates
So...business as usual. What a shame it's politics and not business.
“Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.” Thus the [Tangerine Tyrant] advised you. And he tells you: “If you want profits, you must rule.” There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: “Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?”
-Muad'dib
Also fitting is
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. -from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
That’s fucking grotesque.
He went from leaving semen in children to leaving hopelessness in children.
Geeze! Why do them liberulls gotta make everythang so damn political!
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:(
This was already a thing that was happening, but the order is worded in a way to imply that it wasn't.
So pick your politicians carefully…
I find it odd that scientists have ever trusted the government after Waxahatchie.
that was congress's fault, but yeah
Congress is certainly part of the government.
Mrw