Claims extracted
13
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
15%
2 of 13 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
3
Health
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Donald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda.
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that → expect → agenda
The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding “woke” initiatives that went against Trump’s political priorities.
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that → report → priorities
Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of management and budget (OMB), and other administration officials proposed an executive order that would create an external committee that could veto awards in biomedical research that do not align with Trump’s goals, according to several people who spoke to the Washington Post.
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who → propose → Post
The board would include Vought and the NIH director, Jay Bhattacharya, according to Politico, and it would be required to reach unanimous decisions on grant awards.
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it → include → awards
The OMB is the White House agency in charge of implementing the president’s policies in the executive branch.
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OMB → implement → branch
Establishing an external commission to award grants based on the president’s ideological agenda breaks with the agency’s traditional process of evaluating proposals on scientific merit.
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Establishing → establish → merit
Bhattacharya has resisted cuts to federal research spending and defended the NIH’s grant-making process on Friday, while Vought expressed a desire to reshape federal spending.
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Vought → resist → spending
The reported move comes as the NIH, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, faces a class-action lawsuit by researchers arguing that the Trump administration is hindering and terminating scientific grants to censor opposing views to the president’s ideological agenda.
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administration → come → agenda
Researchers are accusing the administration of violating the first amendment.
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Researchers → accuse → amendment
“What the First Amendment does not allow is the government’s use of its funding power to target or silence the expression of disfavored viewpoints within the biomedical research community,” reads the lawsuit.
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lawsuit → allow → community
Since Trump took office for his second term, billions of dollars in federal grants related to health, nutrition, the environment and disaster relief have been cut or frozen.
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billions → take → health
Research with keywords including “equity”, “racist”, “gender”, “climate change” and others has been flagged by the administration to hinder funding for scientific research.
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Research → include → research
The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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which → oversee → comment
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