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Alex Padilla: Your proposal exceeds OMB’s authority, will make it impossible for grant recipients to faithfully carry out the funding…

On the recordJuly 3, 2026
Your proposal exceeds OMB’s authority, will make it impossible for grant recipients to faithfully carry out the funding priorities that Congress establishes in statute, and would turn federal grants into a new cudgel for the President to unilaterally advance his partisan agenda and punish political rivals.
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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Senator Padilla's statement on OMB's proposed regulation.

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