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Alex Padilla: “Rather than focusing on fulfilling the statutory purposes of a grant program, applicants and recipients will be forced…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2026
Rather than focusing on fulfilling the statutory purposes of a grant program, applicants and recipients will be forced to play an endless guessing game, trying to determine which of their activities may or may not run afoul of OMB’s ambiguous regulations or the president’s whims.
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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Senator Padilla's concerns about the impacts of the proposed rule.

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