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The New Trump OMB Rule: How People, Organizations are Pushing Back

By Bruce Y. LeeJuly 6, 2026

You may have heard a lot of OMGs on social media over the new OMB rule. In this case, OMB stands for the White House Office of Management and Budget. And the new rule from the Trump administration entitled, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” has certainly gotten a lot of ”oh my goodnesses,” WTFs and submitted public comments from different scientific organizations and patient advocacy groups. But ICYMI, the impact of this attempted rewrite of 2 CFR Part 200 could reach well beyond scientists, science, patients and health into practically all sectors of society.

The New OMB Rule Will Give The President’s Political Appointees Control Over Federal Grantmaking

That’s because this rewrite of 2 CFR Part 200 that came out on May 29 is essentially what The American Physical Society describes as “revising the entirety of federal grantmaking and federal cooperative agreements in America while allowing only a 45-day public comment period.” So, you and the rest of the U.S., public have got only until July 13, 2026, to fully read, review, digest and submit a comment on the document that’s detailing the changes.

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Meanwhile, the American Association for Cancer Research has called it “a major threat to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its lifesaving mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and the hundreds of other diseases that afflict millions of Americans.” Research America has warned, ”Taken together, these changes would move the federal research funding system away from scientific merit, collaboration, and stability. The result would be slower scientific and medical progress, delaying the discoveries, treatments, cures, and public health advances that Americans depend on.” Yikes.

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