Topic

Federal appropriations

The annual congressional process of enacting spending bills that set agency budgets and attach conditions to how money is used.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Trump's nearly $1 billion pocket rescission reaches $28 million in HHS research grants

President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.

Publishers:statnews.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives70
Confidence55

science2 publishers

A letter from Senate Appropriations precedes the apparent death of an NIH grant veto plan

The order was never published, so the record is a sequence: Vought pushed it at a Friday meeting, the Senate Appropriations chair wrote against it on Tuesday, and by Wednesday one person familiar with the decision called it dead.

Publishers:scientificamerican.comstatnews.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives72
Confidence55