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White House Proposes New Rules on Research Grant Approvals

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The White House released draft regulations yesterday that aim to centralize Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control over the release of government funds, including scientific research grants.

If enacted, would dramatically change the peer review process, giving senior political appointees final say over approvals.

Section 200.205 states that 鈥渃onsistent with the Executive order, senior appointees must conduct these reviews and apply specific principles when evaluating proposals. These principles include ensuring that discretionary awards advance the President鈥檚 policy priorities, prohibit the use of funds for discriminatory or otherwise impermissible purposes, and emphasize ensuring compliance with applicable law.鈥� This section refers to President Trump鈥檚 regarding oversight of federal grantmaking.

The proposal states that the scientific peer review of research proposals 鈥渞emains advisory and does not replace agency discretion.鈥�

The proposed OMB rule would not affect the indirect costs rate, which the administration had previously tried to cap at 15% last year.

ED Publishes “Living Document” on OBBB Implementation

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The Department of Education (ED) has published a with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and information on virtual office hours to support HR 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (P.L.119-21) (OBBB).

The first round of . The Department considers the FAQs to be a living document and will continue to post new and updated FAQs as they become available.

House Releases Energy-Water Appropriations Bill

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The House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee released its FY27 spending bill yesterday, and it heads to markup this morning. The draft bill would provide $58.5 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $461 million from FY26.

Key features of the bill include:

  • $50.36 billion for the Department of Energy (a $456 million decrease)
    • $8.525 billion for the DOE Office of Science (a $125 million increase)
    • $1.8 billion for Nuclear Energy (a $15 million increase)
  • $9.75 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers
  • $1.86 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of the Interior (a $211 million increase)
  • $1.85 billion for Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (previously Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a $1.25 billion decrease)
  • $300 million for ARPA-E (a $50 million decrease)

A summary of the bill can be found and the full bill text can be found .

CJS Bill Clears House Appropriations Committee

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After a markup session during which numerous amendments were considered, the House Appropriations Committee adopted its FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science funding bill by a vote of 32 – 28.

The bill, which funds a number of science agencies, including NSF, NOAA, NASA, and NIST, is available聽.

The text of the report, which details how the funds are to be spent, is available .

 

 

Report for House Commerce-Justice-Science Approps Bill Now Available

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In preparation for its markup tomorrow morning, the House Appropriations Committee has released the report that accompanies the FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill.聽 The report includes details on funding levels provided to the agencies.聽 The report is available .

NSF

NSF would be funded at $7.0 billion under this bill, a decrease of $1.75 billion below the current level.

The Research and Related Activities account would be funded at $6.44 billion, a decrease of $736 million.

The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction would receive $172.95 million, which is $78.1 million below the current level.

Although the entire National Science Board has been dismissed, the bill appropriates $3.05 million to the board.

NOAA

The bill appropriates a total of $5.85 billion to NOAA, a cut of $319.8 million.

Within NOAA, activities funded by the Operations, Research, and Facilities account would see a total of $4.69 billion, of which $4.01 billion would be from direct appropriations and $659 million would be from a transfer of funds from the 鈥樷�楶romote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries鈥欌�� Fund and $28 million from prior year funds.

OAR would be funded at $580.2 million overall.聽 This amount includes $92.5 million for Climate CIs and Labs and $20 million for the RISA program.聽 Sea Grant and Sea Grant Aquaculture would be level funded at $80 million and $14 million, respectively.

As part of the National Ocean Service, the Regional IOOS Observations network would be funded at $56 million.

NASA

NASA would be level funded at $24.44 billion.

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) would be funded at $6 billion, a cut of $1.25 billion.聽 Within SMD, Earth Science would be funded at $1.325 billion while Planetary Science would see a total of $2.5 billion.聽 Astrophysics and Heliophysics would receive $1.485 billion and $625 million, respectively.聽 Biological and Physical Sciences would see a total of $65 million.

The bill proposes to fund the Space Tech Directorate at $913 million, a cut of $7.5 million, while Aeronautics would be appropriated a total of $850 million, a cut of $85 million.

The Space Grant Program would be level funded at $58 million.

The full House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill tomorrow morning. The Senate has yet to take any action on its version.