HHS violated the law when it withheld funding for some 1,800 congressionally approved NIH grants for scientific research, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found. Specifically, HHS ...

The GAO reported that disbursements for the program, overseen by HHS, dropped sharply starting Jan. 20, the day President Donald Trump began his second term, and continued through April 25.

GAO said Congress appropriated the Head Start funding for fiscal year 2025, but between Jan. 20 and April 15 of this year, "HHS significantly reduced the rate of disbursement of funds for Head ...

HHS slashed Head Start's funding by more than $825 million compared to the same period last year, the GAO said, amounting to a 65% funding cut. It's the third such violation uncovered by the ...

The Government Accountability Office can file a lawsuit in an attempt to restore the grants. However, the agency has not opted to do so during the second Trump administration.

A congressional watchdog determined Tuesday that the Trump administration broke the law when it directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of research grants earlier this y… ...

GAO’s latest duplication and overlap report, the 15th iteration released by the watchdog, identified “148 new matters and recommendations in 43 new topic areas for Congress or federal agencies ...

According to GAO officials, who concluded their audit through April 2022, HHS concurred with the recommendations to develop procedures and training for reporting these allegations of political ...