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"i wonna sey, Paul McCartney called us ShitKnot"

"i donno, cause i dont really fuckingcare"

This rule does not just affect scientists or universities. It affects the programs that millions of Americans depend on every day, including Medicaid, Head Start, school lunches, housing assistance, food banks, and community health centers. In FY2024, the federal government sent $1.1 trillion in grants to states and communities. Every dollar of it would be subject to these new rules.

The proposed rule would:

• Allow political appointees to cancel active grants at any time, with no meaningful appeal

• Require grant programs to align with the President’s policy priorities, not scientific merit or community need

• Embed prohibitions on DEI activities as material breach conditions in all federal awards

• Ban research into health and economic disparities

• Allow denial of grants based on an organization’s affiliations or views deemed ‘un-American’

• Restrict science communication and public health outreach as ‘issue advocacy’

Public comments close July 13, 2026.