The Trump administration has proposed what experts are calling “an unprecedented shift” in the way the federal government determines how to distribute grant funding.
The most significant change proposed by the Office of Management and Budget would be a move away from the peer review process to a system that allows political appointees to decide what should be funded. The proposal would also allow federal officials to cancel grant funding at any time.
“The overarching goal,” OMB wrote in its proposal, “is to improve transparency, accountability and oversight for how federal taxpayer dollars are