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Thomas Kahn

Thomas Kahn

Aug 12, 2026

6:06
Are they even gonna be able to do something between themselves, between the House and the Senate?
6:11
Well, it's a good question and you're, you're, y- built into your question is an important point.
6:16
One of the items that the, uh, Senate, uh, put into the, uh, CR was a freeze on, uh, this proposal by OMB to essentially give the administration wide authority to use political subjective decisions to make grants rather... uh, grants so that...
6:36
Typically, grant money is handed out, um, based on a whole series of, of, um, uh, criteria, w- where, uh, uh, there's certain factors that are delineated through either regulations or through statute.
6:50
Um, it's done through a process of expertise and, uh, it's done on a process of meritocracy.
6:56
But this OMB proposal would essentially, I- by some accounts, turn into a slush fund that, um, would give OMB wide berth to, uh, give out or deny grants because they don't happen to like the grantee for political reasons or whatever.
7:14
So thankfully, the...

18 MINS LATER

25:44
Um, do you have some, some thoughts on that or some-

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