Action Alert: OMB Proposed Rule Resources

Submit your comments to the OMB Rule by July 13, 2026. AIMBE has partnered with the American Physical Society (APS) on a comment builder tool to help you craft your response. Click here to learn more and submit your comment.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed significant changes to the rules that govern federal grants across all agencies of the government, including NIH, and NSF. These rules would undermine the scientific, merit-based peer-review system in favor of political priorities.

The proposed regulations are open for public comment, and we encourage the AIMBE community to submit personal messages sharing their concerns. Public comments are due by July 13, 2026. More information about how to submit comments are provided below.

How would the OMB rule affect research grants?

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How do I submit a public comment?

AIMBE has partnered with the American Physical Society (APS) to offer a simple tool to help you submit comments about the proposed OMB rule. The tool is a comment builder that allows you to address specific areas of the proposed rule, including:

Grant review and the politicization of science
International collaborations
Professional activities and extracurricular affiliations
Broadening participation and workforce development

Submit Your Comments Here

Tips and Guidance for Submitting Comments

To use the APS tool effectively, or to submit comments on your own through regulations.gov, please consider the following:

Your comments will be made public and will be part of the public record
Use constructive arguments and language, avoiding any sensitive or inflammatory themes
Use evidence to support your claims
Provide personal examples of how the rule would impact your research
Address specific areas of the proposed rule, citing the sub-item number associated, for each section of your comments (the comment tool provides this feature automatically)
Please note: you cannot submit your comment anonymously via the comment builder tool. To submit your comments anonymously, you may use the comment builder to first develop your message and then copy/paste your letter into regulations.gov
Please note: If you send comments using the comment builder tool, each section where you address your concerns will be sent individually to OMB. Therefore, an individual can expect to send several responses using the comment builder tool

Spread the Word

Help AIMBE spread the message by sharing your concerns about the proposed OMB rule changes on your social media. Encourage others to submit a comment using this link to the comment builder tool: https://takeaction.aps.org/lp/n301wnzw

Download one of AIMBE’s graphics, below, to spread the message on your social media with the hashtag #AIMBE, #OMBrule, #StandUpforScience:

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