Unitary executive controls convert merit-based federal grants into tools of partisan compliance.
The White House is dismantling peer-reviewed vetting processes to give political appointees final veto power over all discretionary federal awards.
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It highlights the administration's effort to secure Supreme Court approval to selectively terminate or withhold federal research grants to enforce its ideological agenda.
An OMB regulatory proposal seeks to replace merit-based, peer-reviewed grants with a system where political appointees have the final say based on political alignment.
An OMB proposal is drawing massive public pushback over plans to give political appointees the authority to override civil servants and deny discretionary grant funding.
Loyalist shadow figures were installed directly into federal agencies to bypass standard merit reviews and execute political grant terminations.
The planned overhaul of federal Uniform Guidance subjects merit-based scientific awards to direct, ideological vetting by political appointees.