This committee hasn't even seen spend plans that we're supposed to get. And so there's a point and this rule that is really in the process of comment which you won't extend The rule is specific about who is going to review the grants, not on merit, but through a political lens. And there's all kinds of restrictions on these grant awards that is reverting a process, as I said earlier, that has been established after the Second World War. (02:11–02:30)
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Asserts that a rule specifies grant reviews will be through a political lens, not merit.
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