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Collins: White House backing down from NIH grant order
Susan Collins pressed the administration to drop a political review board that would have given appointees final say over NIH grants.
- The Trump administration is backing off its initial plan for an executive order that would expand White House influence over NIH grants, according to three people familiar with the process.
- Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressured the OMB to abandon the effort after The Washington Post reported on a contentious Friday meeting about the proposed order.
- On Friday, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and OMB director Russell Vought held a lengthy discussion about empowering the White House to influence NIH grants to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
- Legal questions remain about OMB influence over NIH spending after Congress intervened earlier this year; advancing the original order could have jeopardized a December 11 stopgap spending bill.
- While the White House is changing course on the initial order, it may still release a different version regarding NIH grants, though both the White House and NIH declined to comment.
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White House drops executive order for tighter NIH purview
The White House is scrapping plans for an executive order that would give the Trump administration more control over grantmaking at the National Institutes of Health, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The White House had reportedly held a meeting earlier this week discussing plans for the potential order that would’ve given the […]
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