A continuing resolution awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature that would avert a government shutdown would also have implications for the federal grantmaking process.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6500 on Sept. 1. If signed, the stopgap funding bill will temporarily block proposed changes to the federal grantmaking process. The vote was bipartisan, with 370 “yes” votes and 48 “no” votes. Fourteen members were recorded as not voting.
As Healio previously reported, the Office of Management and Budget proposed what experts called “an unprecedented shift” in the way the