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  • 1.  Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 28 days ago
    Dear ASA Members, 
    The ASA and the broader scientific community are alarmed by the proposed rule on grantmaking from the White House Office of Management and Budget: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The fact that there are already 26,000 comments reflects the level of concern. The rule has broad, far-reaching ramifications on grantmaking, including on the scientific peer-review process, conferences, and publishing. 
    Thanks to the many members who have contacted ASA leadership on the rule and shared on ASA Connect. As stated in ASA Connect, the ASA will respond and we're grateful to the Committee on Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee for their willingness to take a lead role. 
    I write now to urge you, our members, to also comment, an action scores of other scholarly societies are also taking. The larger the number of responses and the more varied and substantive, the stronger the message will be. So please respond and encourage those in your network to do so. The process is straightforward to do from the link for the proposed rule but reach out to me with any questions. As an alternative, we hope to soon be sharing tools to make it all the easier to reply while also individualizing the response so it is not classified as just a repeat of what others are saying. The first I've seen so far is this one from the American Geophysical Union.
    Comments are due July13 and we will be keeping you updated and repeating this request. I should also note the ASA has signed onto a letter to OMB with 300 other organizations urging the deadline be extended.
    The following are a selection of the many information pieces and other resources available on the proposed rule: 
    Thank you,
    Steve


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    Steve Pierson
    Director of Science Policy
    American Statistical Association
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  • 2.  RE: Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 28 days ago

    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



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    Ron Wasserstein
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    The American Statistical Association
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  • 3.  RE: Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 27 days ago
    Edited by Theresa Kim 27 days ago
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    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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  • 4.  RE: Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 21 days ago

    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



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    Steve Pierson
    Director of Science Policy
    American Statistical Association
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  • 5.  RE: Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 5 days ago

    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

    Medical Research Organizations Launch Resources for Responding to the OMB Proposed Federal Grant Rule
    As the July 13 deadline approaches for submitting public comments on the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance, the scientific and medical research communities are mobilizing resources to help organizations navigate the sweeping proposed changes to the federal grant system. To assist institutions in drafting formal responses, several advocacy groups have launched specialized toolkits to break down complex regulatory language and to provide guidance for those submitting comments:

     



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    Steve Pierson
    Director of Science Policy
    American Statistical Association
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    Original Message


  • 6.  RE: Encouraging member comment on proposed rule for federal grantmaking

    Posted 18 hours ago
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    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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    Steve Pierson
    Director of Science Policy
    American Statistical Association
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