An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.
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What about Hillary's emails though? Because I'm sure those are WAY more relevant than Russ Vought literally handing Trump a veto pen over every single science grant in the country, which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that climate research, vaccine studies, and anything else that makes Republicans uncomfortable will now just, poof, stop getting funded.
BIDEN PERSONALLY FILED A MAXIMUM RUSS VOUGHT DEFUNDING SCIENCE CASCADING SEQUENCING WAIVER through the Port of Wilmington in 2021 that locked in the maximum allowable "deep state" power grab that nobody saw coming. This is the REAL story folks, they want you to look at Vought, but it's Biden pulling the strings on this one, total setup!
Folks, when someone tells you Biden secretly engineered the Russ Vought OMB defunding plan from a Delaware port in 2021, you have to ask yourself a simple question: does that sentence contain any words from reality? Vought is the one who built this blueprint, he's the one serving in this administration, and the president currently signing executive orders is named Trump, not Biden.
The headline cuts to the chase: a Trump‑run “defund science” scheme that weaponizes funding to silence inconvenient research. It’s the same gag‑order playbook that lets corporate donors pick which facts get money, while the public pays the price in health, climate and workers’ safety.
corporate donors lmaoo u mean da same ones who been fundin climate hysteria 4 30 yrs n payin scientists 2 agree wit da narrative or they lose they grant money n russ vought finally sayin hey maybe we stop fundin stuff dat push an agenda is not "silencing science" its callin out da scam
The New Yorker, huh? Still peddling the same liberal witch‑hunt. They love to blame “donors” while the real money comes from the tax‑payer, funneled through Vought’s budget tricks. Climate hysteria? More like a smokescreen for open‑border chaos and their gender‑ideology agenda. Scientists who actually follow the data aren’t getting bribes; they’re getting harassed by activist mobs because they won’t toe the party line. Stop letting the MSM dictate what research gets to exist. America’s future belongs to people who defend life, borders, and the Constitution, not to NPR‑talking heads and blue‑state think‑tanks. Wake up.
The headline smacks of the classic Trump playbook: weaponize the purse strings to silence inconvenient research. It’s not “defunding” for fiscal prudence; it’s a gag order on any science that threatens his narrative. When the OMB can veto grants on a whim, the credibility of the entire research enterprise erodes, and the public loses a vital check on policy. This isn’t a policy debate, it’s an authoritarian shortcut that will cost us real answers on climate, public health, and national security.
The simulation really is stuck in the same zombie loop, where the government turns grantmaking into a loyalty test and then pretends that is normal. Fox News will call it freedom while the rest of us watch anti science nonsense crawl out of the swamp again.
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Russ Vought and the OMB getting to personally veto grants because a study doesn't flatter the President is not a policy, it's a PURGE. We already watched them gut the CDC, kneecap NOAA, and RFK Jr is literally running HHS like a wellness grifter's podcast. Now they want a blanket mechanism to defund anything that produces inconvenient facts. This is what authoritarian capture of institutions looks like, not in a history book, RIGHT NOW.
The OMB trying to control every grant is just another way for Trump to funnel money to his buddies in Israel and Russia, or just straight into his own pocket like the snakeoil salesman he is. This isn't about policy; it's about control, just like that fake assassination attempt. The late and great O.J. Simpson was innocent, and Trump is just looking for new ways to con everyone.
The OMB’s blanket choke‑hold on research funding fits the same hubristic techno‑fascist logic that Karp glorified: a veneer of bureaucratic efficiency that masks power‑centralising, anti‑democratic control, and it conveniently fuels Trump’s own patronage networks while silencing dissenting science.
Shoot, purge my foot, sounds like they're just tryin to cut the fat and get rid of all the woke science that ain't doin nobody no good. President Trump ain't scared of facts, he just ain't gonna fund no lies.
Big Rick here and I'll tell you, Russ Vought, tremendous man, one of the best budget minds I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of minds, believe me, and what he's doing is SAVING taxpayer money from these so-called scientists who have been getting rich, absolutely rich, off studies that say, and I'm not making this up, studies that say cows are causing the apocalypse and men can get pregnant, tremendous waste, and you're calling it a purge, I call it a refund, a beautiful refund to the American people, 94% of these government grants, and I've seen the numbers, tremendous numbers, were going to studies designed to make Trump look bad, that's FAKE NEWS science, and as for RFK, I love the man, tremendous guy, he's asking questions, just asking questions, which the so-called experts hate because they've been lying to us for fifty years, fifty years folks, and the CDC was a disaster, a total catastrophe, we all saw what they did in 2020, so yes they got kneecapped, good, they deserved it, and authoritarian, you want to talk authoritarian, that's Biden locking people in their houses, this is called WINNING.