The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order to put “senior appointees” in charge of deciding who gets funded. The ...

Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has repeatedly frozen and terminated research funding for seemingly political reasons. Federal agencies have ended grants for studies because they ...

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which requires a “senior appointee” or “designee” to approve only those federal grants that match the president’s policy priorities, federal agency ...

Last August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government. Under the system that had made the US a scientific ...

On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (the “EO”) directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to complete the rulemaking process related to rescheduling marijuana to Schedule ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, on the new $12 billion initiative on women's health research, signed by President Biden on Monday.

The president’s executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating mental health disorders like severe depression and PTSD. By Andrew Jacobs and Noah Daly ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific ...

An executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump would reclassify marijuana as a controlled substance with potential medical use — a designation that will make it easier for the Department ...