White House NIH control plan collapse

The White House's push to gain greater control over NIH grant-making, including efforts to steer funding decisions and impose new ideological or political review criteria on research awards, has reportedly collapsed. Sources describe the initiative as effectively "dead," with the administration retreating from earlier proposals to centralize authority over how NIH distributes its grants. The setback suggests continued institutional resistance within NIH and the broader biomedical research community to White House efforts to reshape grant oversight.