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U.S. Office of Management and Budget director and former acting CFPB director, a key architect of Project 2025 and federal budget policy.
NIH put $3.2 billion into basic cystic fibrosis research from 1985 to 2012, an essay in The Conversation reports. Its author warns that grant policies from the Office of Management and Budget could limit similar work.
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The order was never published, so the record is a sequence: Vought pushed it at a Friday meeting, the Senate Appropriations chair wrote against it on Tuesday, and by Wednesday one person familiar with the decision called it dead.
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Judge Ann Aiken ruled that Russell Vought's zero funding request for the CFPB was unconstitutional, in a suit brought by 22 attorneys general. The ruling keeps the bureau's claim on the Fed intact through Fed losses, pending appeal, and leaves the size of each request to the director.
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STAT reports that John Gaitanis, newly installed as chair of the federal committee that helps steer roughly $2 billion in autism research, has financial ties to leucovorin. STAT does not say what form that interest takes.
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A threshold design that gives fintechs free pulls up to a limit and banks fees above it hands both industries a grievance. Model data costs against court dockets, not a final rule.
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The bureau calls the free-text complaints unverified and one-sided. They were also the only part of the file that told an outside reader what a complaint was about.
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