# 2025-15344: White House Orders Stricter Checks to Curb Wasteful Federal Grant Spending 2025-15344, Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-08-12, effective 2025-08-07 (as of 2026-11-03). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15344 - As of: 2026-11-03 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-15344 - Title: Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking - Type: Presidential Document - Agencies: Executive Office of the President - Citation: 90 FR 38929 - Published: 2025-08-12 - Effective: 2025-08-07 - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: no - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-03 ## In one line White House Orders Stricter Checks to Curb Wasteful Federal Grant Spending ## Summary The government is shaking up how it watches over federal grants to stop waste and make sure tax dollars help Americans. This means stricter checks on who gets money and what projects get funded, especially cutting out programs seen as un-American or ineffective. These changes start soon and aim to save money while making grants smarter and fairer for everyone. ## Effects PRIA read - New senior review for grant announcements: mixed, medium. Agencies must promptly name a senior appointee to create a review process for new discretionary grant funding opportunity announcements and discretionary awards. Until that process is in place, agencies may not issue new funding opportunity announcements without prior approval from the designated s… - Content limits on eligible grant projects: cost, medium. Senior appointees must ensure discretionary awards demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities and shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate racial preferences, denial of the human sex binary, illegal immigration, or initiatives said to compromise public saf… - Lower indirect costs favored; F&A limits: cost, medium. Agencies should give preference to institutions with lower indirect cost rates, and the Director is directed to revise the Uniform Guidance to appropriately limit use of discretionary grant funds for facilities and administrative (F&A) costs. - Broader use of termination-for-convenience: cost, high. The Director will revise guidance to require that discretionary grants permit termination for convenience, including when an award no longer advances agency priorities or the national interest, and agency heads must revise existing discretionary grants to permit or clarify immediate termination for… - Tighter controls on grant fund drawdowns: cost, low. Agencies are to insert grant terms that prohibit recipients from drawing down grant funds for specific projects without affirmative agency authorization and require grantees to provide written, specific explanations or support for each drawdown request. - Favor broader recipients and reproducible science: benefit, low. 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