Public Citizen Comment on Proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
Docket Number OMB-2026-0034
Comment on Proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
In June 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued proposed revisions to its Uniform Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance. Forty-one other agencies issued proposed conforming changes to their own regulations on grantmaking.
Public Citizen submitted a comment to address the catastrophic impacts the proposed changes would have on the enterprise of medical research in the United States. The comment explained that, if adopted, the changes to the Uniform Guidance would disrupt ongoing grant-funded research, jeopardize future research, and impede the dissemination of research findings. Each of these effects alone would be reason enough to reject the proposed rule. In tandem, these effects would devastate the development of scientific knowledge in this country, waste American taxpayer resources, and threaten the health and wellbeing of the American people. We asked the agencies to withdraw the proposed rule in its entirety.