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Trump Administration Can’t Cite Changed Priorities to Terminate Grants

Trump Administration Can’t Cite Changed Priorities to Terminate Grants

Ryann Quinn
Inside Higher Ed

When university researchers started to receive notice last year that the Trump administration was canceling their grants, they often didn’t get a clear explanation why beyond that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”

But federal agencies can’t use that language, which stemmed from earlier federal guidance, to cancel grants based on changed priorities, a judge ruled last week, taking away one of the administration’s tools for terminating previously awarded grants. The court order only applies to the 23 states that sued.

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