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With colleges and universities alarmed at the impact of proposed OMB funding rules on both research grants and education funding, Inside Higher Ed focuses on the efforts by DPH and others that have generated massive numbers of comments to OMB about the rule, quoting DPH member Melinda Rostal.

DPH Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken writes about the devastating possible impact of proposed OMB funding rules on Hawaii. He notes the islands' policies like fighting climate change and traditions of respecting diversity, including gender diversity, and notes, "All of this represents reasons that vital funds — money from federal taxes we all pay — could be suddenly and arbitrarily cut off."

DPH Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken takes on the proposed OMB rule for federal grants, explaining, "it makes every federal dollar that our state and local governments and private institutions receive subject to the partisan and ideological agenda of whatever administration is in the White House."

Researcher and DPH member Nancy Krieger, who has already fought with the Trump administration for daring to study the impact of discrimination on health, lays out the consequences for science of proposed OMB rules on federal grants: "Having all funding for federal grants of any type subject to the political rules and biases of a politicized agency led by a policy czar who has zero real-world knowledge about any of the topics at issue is a recipe for disaster."

As Michigan faces new measles outbreaks amid declining vaccination rates, DPH member Eve Mokotoff explains, “One of the ways we protect babies is by having the people around them be vaccinated, because it’s a process. The idea that the culture would require you to be vaccinated to be around other people is simple social responsibility, and these vaccines are much safer than the diseases themselves.”

Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth Jacobs and James Alwine lay out the consequences for their home state of Arizona of proposed Trump administration rules on federal grants -- potentially devastating funding for health, food assistance, pollution control and much more.

DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves lays out the consequences of proposed new federal funding rules, under which " decisions on all grants will now be in the hands of political commissars rather than subject-matter experts."

This analysis of proposed OMB rules for federal grants lays out all the way it could harm communities, far beyond their impact on science. It quotes DPH member Melinda Rostal explaining that "for my family, my friends, everyone, these regulations put our entire community under threat. It risks legalized, politicized extortion.”