Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/science/nih-omb-grants-bhattacharya-vought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClE.IUBK.fIInkVjczH3y&smid=url-share