Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

Proposed OMB rule revising the Uniform Guidance for federal financial assistance (2 CFR, including §200.205 and §200.340) that commenters describe as shifting grant review and funding decisions from independent expert peer review toward political appointees, adding ideological conditions on awards, and restricting allowable costs.
OMB Docket: OMB-2026-0034
📖 Read the Rule → Browse the proposed rule text section by section and see which comments cite each §200.xx — colored by whether they support or oppose.
Overview
65,409
Total Comments
11,474
In 261 Campaigns
2,167
With Attachments
May 29, 2026 to August 07, 2026
Date Range
Position
95%
Oppose (62,034)
4.5%
Support (2,959)
0.6%
Unclear (416)
Topics
22,874
Peer Review
3,715
DEI
2,970
Vought / Administration
44
Joint / Coalition Letter

Who Submitted

51,252
Individual/Other
9,346
Researcher/Academic
4,146
Patient/Family/Public Health
355
Nonprofit/Advocacy Organization
137
Industry/Business
84
Scientific/Professional Society
51
University or Research Institution
38
Elected Official

Top Concerns

Oppose Support Click a concern to filter the table
Politicization of grant decisions
46,078 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Undermines peer review / merit-based funding
39,627 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Scientific integrity and independence
31,344 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Harm to U.S. scientific leadership / competitiveness
28,021 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Chilling effect on researchers / careers
26,850 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Harm to public health and medical research
24,611 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Ideological / viewpoint conditions (DEI, 'woke')
14,171 · 99% oppose / 1% support
Separation of powers / rule of law
14,020 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Administrative burden or unworkable requirements
13,907 · 100% oppose / 0% support
Restrictions on allowable costs
11,046 · 99% oppose / 1% support
Waste, fraud, abuse, and accountability
5,449 · 48% oppose / 52% support

Form Letter Campaigns

11,474 comments (18%) detected across 261 form letter campaigns using text similarity analysis. Bar color shows each campaign's aggregated member stance. Click a bar to see the canonical version.

Oppose Support
#1 I support the Office of Management and Budget's proposed reforms to st…
2,565 similar (2,398 exact)
#2 Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance Regulation OMB-2026-0034-0…
1,812 similar (821 exact)
#3 I urge OMB to withdraw its proposed rule on federal financial assistan…
976 similar (68 exact)
#4 [200.205, 200.340, 200.341, 200.432, 200.454, 200.461] I am writing in…
783 similar (157 exact)
#5 The United States was built on the principle of independence. The beau…
589 similar (287 exact)
#6 I am writing in opposition to this proposed rule. I support NASA and s…
411 similar (365 exact)
#7 I am writing to express my staunch opposition to the Office of Managem…
349 similar (228 exact)
#8 Dear Mr. Vought, As a member of the American Academy of Neurology, I'd…
223 similar (3 exact)
#9 Dear Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance, I urge OMB to preser…
195 similar (2 exact)
#10 As a public health professional and advocate, I am writing in oppositi…
178 similar (146 exact)
#11 Office of Management and Budget Re: Proposed Revisions to 2 CFR Part 2…
120 similar (4 exact)
#12 As a civil engineer, I strongly oppose the proposed rule titled “Regul…
94 similar (57 exact)
#13 As an infectious diseases health professional serving in Ohio, I am de…
78 similar (3 exact)
#14 I am concerned that the proposed changes in Section 200.450 will creat…
75 similar (30 exact)
#15 Comments on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Notice of Propos…
74 similar (3 exact)

+ 246 smaller campaigns

CFR Sections Referenced

Top 15 of 127 cfr sections cited across comments. Bar color shows the oppose/support split of citing comments. Click a bar to filter the table.

Oppose Support
200.205
9,377
200.340
7,824
200.432
4,479
200.461
4,396
200.454
2,993
200.220
2,736
200.202
2,610
200.300
1,825
200.341
1,124
200.206
1,090
200.218
856
200.450
751
200.204
647
200.421
609
200.343
263

Comments

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Generated
August 07, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Model
gpt-5.4-nano
Total Comments
65,409
Date Range
May 29, 2026 to August 07, 2026

Comments were classified with an LLM (gpt-5.4-nano) plus a second-pass verification, and near-identical form letters are grouped into campaigns. Automated classification may contain errors.
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Changelog
  • 2026-08-07Corrected the “Identified As” name shown on some comments. Comments with identical wording are analyzed once and the result shared across them, but that analysis also saw the submitter's name — so when several people submitted exactly the same text, one of their names could appear on the others' comments. A name (and any state inferred from it) is now kept only when it actually appears in that person's own submission. This corrected about 5,700 comments; positions, concerns, and campaign grouping were not affected.
  • 2026-08-07Updated to 65,409 comments (+1,000 new).
  • 2026-08-07Updated to 64,409 comments (+2,294 new).
  • 2026-08-05Updated to 62,115 comments (+590 new).
  • 2026-08-04Updated to 61,525 comments (+280 new).
  • 2026-08-04Updated to 61,245 comments (+827 new).
  • 2026-08-01The comment table now lists every submission. It previously collapsed identical comment texts into one row, so the table showed 52,511 rows against 60,418 comments — its row count, its filters and its CSV download all quietly undercounted, and anyone who sent a form letter could not find their own comment. Near-identical letters are still grouped and summarized as campaigns.
  • 2026-08-01Added a "Download everything" button. The existing Download CSV button gives the table as filtered on screen; the new one gives every comment with every field — the original regulations.gov columns (submitter, city, state, ZIP, dates, tracking number, attachment files) alongside everything this tool derives (position, concerns, entity type, campaign, quotes, rationale), one row per submission. Both buttons now explain themselves on hover.
  • 2026-07-31Updated to 60,418 comments (+703 new).
  • 2026-07-30Updated to 59,715 comments (+1,640 new).
  • 2026-07-30Stopped reading duplicate copies of the same attachment. regulations.gov stores a submitter's original file alongside a PDF rendition of it, and both were being read, so around 700 comments had their attachment text counted twice. Each upload is now read once, preferring the format least likely to need optical character recognition. One comment's stance was corrected as a result.
  • 2026-07-29Recovered the text of ~130 attachments that previously extracted to nothing — scanned PDFs with no text layer, text drawn as vector outlines, and files whose fonts carried no readable character map. Comment count unchanged; the text behind it is more complete. One comment was reclassified from oppose to support once its 21-page attachment could be read.
  • 2026-07-29Updated to 58,075 comments (+1,086 new).
  • 2026-07-28Updated to 56,989 comments (+879 new).
  • 2026-07-27Updated to 56,110 comments (+1,056 new).
  • 2026-07-23Updated to 55,054 comments (+897 new).
  • 2026-07-23Updated to 54,157 comments (+154 new).
  • 2026-07-18Corrected a data-processing error that had mislabeled the largest support form-letter campaign (~2,400 comments) as opposed. Root cause: the regulations.gov export assigns the same Document ID to a few different comments, which crossed some classifications during a data rebuild. Fixed by matching each comment's classification to its own text, and hardened so duplicate IDs are handled automatically going forward. Stance totals restored to 94% oppose / 5% support.
  • 2026-07-16Updated to 54,003 comments (+822 new).
  • 2026-07-15Improved form-letter grouping: very short, generic one-line comments are no longer counted as coordinated campaigns, and campaigns whose text lives in an attachment are now labeled by the attached letter instead of “See attached file(s).”
  • 2026-07-15Updated to the latest set of public comments (53,181 total).