WASHINGTON, DC: President Trump's latest executive order related to healthcare mandates that all federal grants must be reviewed and signed off by senior political appointees within each agency. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Getty Images

The latest executive order related to healthcare mandates that all federal grants must be reviewed and signed off by senior political appointees within each agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. Federal grants must “demonstrably advance” the president’s agenda. This degree of politicization of grantmaking decisions is unprecedented.

All HHS agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, must designate a senior political appointee to be responsible for reviewing grants, at both the announcement and award stages, to

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