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- U.S. President Donald Trump ordered Russ Vought to draft an executive order creating a grant-award board.
- The board would include NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Vought and require unanimous grant decisions.
- Trump’s plan would give Vought direct control over the NIH’s $48 billion of congressionally-appropriated funds.
- Congress’s September stopgap bill barred the administration from implementing Vought’s earlier grant-control proposal.
