But, in contrast to Harvard, it appears that Yale is instead seeking to negotiate some kind of deal with the Trump administration. The answer lies in a little-known but massively important regulation proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. The proposed regulation effectively endows the Trump administration with discretion to cut off federal grants wherever and however it wishes. Like Josef Stalin in the old Soviet Union, the Trump administration claims the right to assert political control over scientific research. But a second effect will be to subject American research universities to the domination of the Trump administration.