ASA Connect

• June 17 webinar hosted by Research!America: Responding to OMB's Proposed Rule 
• Guest Post - The US Government's New Guidance for Federal Grants and The Case for Scholarly Societies
• COGR: June 2026 Meeting Slide Presentations & Session Recordings
• White House Plan to Take Over Federal Grantmaking Draws Criticism from Science Groups (American Institute of Physics)
• A Threat to the Science That Keeps Americans Healthy (AcademyHealth) 

Thanks, Steve, for this important information. I want to highlight the second item in your list of resources: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/15/guest-post-the-us-governments-new-guidance-for-federal-grants-and-the-case-for-scholarly-societies/. This blog clearly explains why this issue matters to everyone and how individuals and organizations can respond.

Ron

I have examples of what comments we may add from the POV of a researcher from what I posted in my previous thread. However, I want to encourage people to inform the general public reasons to oppose. Chris Marcum, formerly of OMB and NIH, wrote a clear piece on how this affects public libraries, roads, community colleges, local businesses, and food programs. I have attached it here for reference.

Sincerely,

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Theresa Y Kim (she/her)
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CM general public.pdf   136 KB 1 version

Dear ASA Members, 

I mentioned I would be sharing additional tools that make the submission of comments easier to reply to while also also allowing one to individualize the response so it is not classified as just a repeat of what others are saying. 

Here are two: https://www.aps.org/initiatives/advocate-amplify/policy/federal-grants-rule-change (the ASA is a partner on this one). 

Please take time to make a comment. 

Thank you,

Steve

Dear ASA Members, 

Thanks to the many of you who have submitted comments on this proposed rule. As emphasized by the email most of you received from the ASA President and Executive Director on Monday, we are asking the statistical and data science community to be part of the broad community submitting comments on the proposed rule. As of this morning, there are more than 93,000 responses. Comments are due Monday, July 13.

Mulrow's and Wasserstein's email had several resources as have prior messages to ASA Connect. I write with a final set of resources and request for you to submit comments. The excerpt below is from the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research and so focuses on NIH impacts. Please share other resources that you have found helpful. 

Thank you,

Steve

Dear Members, 

ASA's comments on this proposed rule have been submitted. They are attached to this message and will soon be posted to the ASA website. (They were also shared on LinkedIn.) Thanks to the members of the Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee for their extensive work to draft these comments. 

We also thank the many of you who submitted comments. As of Monday morning, 292,000 had been submitted. 

Steve

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OMB_ProposedRuleASA_Comments.pdf   188 KB 1 version

Dear ASA Members, 

Thanks to the many of you who submitted comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget on the proposed rule on grantmaking. I write now to ask members in the US to join the broader-community campaign by sharing your comments (or those of the ASA) with your elected members of Congress-both Senators and your US Representative-and ask their help for the proposed rule to be withdrawn. You can use the contact feature on their website for such messages and you can find their website on the House of Representatives website (or enter your ZIP code at www.house.gov/representatives/find) and on the US Senate website. Calling their offices is also helpful. (As a reminder to federal government employees, do not use government resources or time to communicate to your elected federal officials.)

The ASA Comments are available here: 6/30/26  and 7/13/26. 

As I hope you read in last week's ASA Science Policy + Advocacy email from me, the scientific community organized a robust response to the proposed rule: White House receives 497,000 comments on rules many fear would politicize science (Science); Flood of comments on White House grantmaking overhaul is largely negative, analysis shows (STAT News); The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule (Tech Policy). 

Thank you for your consideration. 

Steve