STAT+: House votes to temporarily block Trump plan to politicize federal grants — SkimNews
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- House voted 370-48 on Tuesday to pass a stopgap government-funding bill blocking the White House proposal to give political appointees more control over federal research grants.
- Senate passed the same bill a month ago, leaving the measure to go to the president for his signature after the House vote.
- The stopgap government-funding bill funds the government until Dec. 11 to get past the midterm elections without a shutdown.
- The research-funding policy ban expires at the same time as the government-funding measure, on Dec. 11.
Why it matters: The bill gives federal research programs a temporary reprieve from the proposed political-control change, but the ban expires Dec. 11, after the midterm elections. The same Dec. 11 date ends the stopgap funding period, making the House vote a short-term shield that still requires presidential signature.
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