Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
New long-form post on the proposed Executive Order that would give OMB Director Russell Vought veto power over NIH funding decisions.
joshuasweitz.substack.com
An Emperor of All Malice: Contesting Efforts to Control NIH Funding
Unilateral efforts by the White House to politicize funding decisions jeopardize discovery, health, and the economy… and demand a timely, effective response.
![“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal spending bill (HR 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the US Small Business Administration from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. Every day that Senate Democrats continue [to] oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”
The email goes on to say that once the shutdown is over, “we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c5xrowexysrnn6rn6piltqjz/bafkreihe24btfvr2b3bvtor3ernferdn6daetgw6jhy5eivlw4ljwgur4q)
