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OMB’s Grant Proposal Is a Win for Taxpayers 

Daniel Kowalski | Michael Bicksel

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering new regulations to crack down on wasteful spending and reassert the people’s control over spending decisions for federal grant-making.   

OMB coordinates policy implementation across the executive branch. As such, it wields great power over the administrative state, including the disbursement of federal funds. Under the Biden Administration, OMB undercut taxpayers with wasteful spending that hurt America’s research capacity.   

The examples of this are, unfortunately, numerous. We can start with the radical climate goals. $42.5 billion was dedicated to a federal broadband initiative that failed to connect a single person, with time and resources instead going to endless red tape. $521 million was spent on electric charging stations, leading to a grand total of 214 being built (it was supposed to create 9,200) by the election.

And the EPA collapsed under its own bureaucratic weight, leaving progress updates and essential documentation uncompleted, resulting in $22.6 billion—or roughly 60% of EPA grants—being at high risk of fraud and abuse. 

Still more of that wasteful spending came in the form of radical DEI or gender ideology mandates. Take the National Science Foundation—arguably the cornerstone of modern scientific research—which spent more than 10% of its budget, or $2.05 billion, on questionable DEI/gender-based initiatives. 

Or, take the Department........

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