With No Agreement on FY14 Budget, A Government Shutdown Looms…

By Bouvier Grant Group

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Here we go again folks.  Fiscal year 2014 begins at midnight and once again there is no budget agreement. Normally when this happens, Congress votes to temporarily continue operating the federal budget at the levels from the previous fiscal year, as they continue to duke it out over funding issues. But this year, Obamacare has stirred up so much bipartisan animosity that a shutdown appears increasingly likely.

 

As I have written previously, I know only too well what happens during a government shutdown, as it happened in my first month of being a federal employee many years ago. All non-essential federal employees are furloughed. They may not work or travel for work, therefore all imminent trips planned by federal employees must be canceled. At NIH, the clinical center continues to operate and, for better or worse, we can still submit those R01s for the October 5 deadline. However, NSF has issued an announcement that while grants.gov may be operational,  “FastLane proposal preparation and submission will be unavailable”.

And while NIH will be accepting those Oct 5 new R01 submissions, no doubt we can look forward to hideous delays in funding decisions in the upcoming months. Read more in an article posted this afternoon, on the eve of a likely government shutdown, from Science Insider.

 

Author:
Dr. Meg Bouvier

Margaret Bouvier received her PhD in 1995 in Biomedical Sciences from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After an NINDS post-doctoral fellowship, she worked as a staff writer for long-standing NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins in the Office of Press, Policy, and Communications for the Human Genome Project and NHGRI. Since 2007, Meg has specialized in editing and advising on NIH submissions, and began offering virtual courses in 2015. She's recently worked with more than 40% of the nation's highest-performing hospitals*, four of the top 10 cancer hospitals, three of the top five medical schools for research, and 14 NCI-designated cancer centers. Her experience at NIH as both a bench scientist and staff writer greatly informs her approach to NIH grantwriting. She has helped clients land over half a billion in federal funding. Bouvier Grant Group is a woman-owned small business.

*Our clients include 9 of the top 22 hospitals as recognized by the 2023/24 US News & World Report honor roll

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