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Congress May Actually Try to Put a (Temporary) Limit on Trump’s Latest Power Grab
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The proposed rule seeks to modify how grant award decisions are made, allowing them to be made by political appointees and based on political calculations.
The rule change opens the process up to a great risk of abuse and corruption, experts told TPM.
The proposed rule change has already received significant pushback from congressional Democrats.
“Republicans rejected killing the proposed rule outright,” she said.
And use that as the primary consideration for how federal grant making works,” O’Connor told TPM.