Democrats of Greater Irvine

Perfect. Thank you, Governor Hochul.

SCIENCE FUNDING IS AT RISK!!!!!!!

There is an urgent issue regarding what the Office of Management and Budget wants to do regarding science funding. It hit Morning Edition of NPR today.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5844678/trump-science-funding-omb-budget-office-rule-change

From this Science editorial:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej3572

The sweeping new regulations proposed by OMB would subject every federal research funding decision to political review. Peer review has never been formally binding, but this proposal would dramatically expand the power of political appointees to override expert assessments of scientific merit. Agencies could end multiyear grants with no due process. They also could use the vague criteria of Trump’s “gold standard science” to identify institutions for preferential treatment. International collaboration with countries identified solely by the administration would be prohibited under the new rules, but more notably, all research that involves the expenditure of funds outside the US would require case-by-case approval. This bureaucratic hurdle would effectively prevent most if not all partnerships from moving forward.

There is a Group called Stand Up for Science. More people need to unite to support science standards; consider joining or at least donating -- https://www.standupforscience.net/

TAKE ACTION!!!!!!!

There is a public comment period in the Federal register until July 13. Please leave comments at the link below.

Please share this information with others.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001/comment

Comments on this proposal must be submitted electronically before the comment closing date to www.regulations.gov.

In submitting comments, please search for recent submissions by OMB to find docket OMB-2026-0034, which includes the full text of the proposed revisions and submit comments there. Please provide clarity as to the section of the regulation that each comment is referencing by beginning each comment with the relevant section number in brackets. For example; if the comment is on 2 CFR 200.414, include the following before the comment [200.414].

Public comments received by OMB and Federal agencies will be posted at www.regulations.gov and be a matter of public record.

Accordingly, please do not include any confidential business information or personal privacy information in your comments.

Many of you who attended our DGI meeting this week asked how to subscribe to Jeff Pearlman's The Truth OC blog which gives a refreshing take on the OC political scene.

(Jeff is a NY Times best-selling author of 10 books (with an 11th soon to be published), an American sportswriter and a former LA Times reporter.)

You can subscribe to Jeff's The Truth OC blog by visiting https://www.thetruthoc.com/.

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ANOTHER WONDERFUL DGI MEETING LAST NIGHT!
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Thank you ALL for coming to our DGI meeting last night!

Almost 110 attended in-person and online, in which we saw many new faces! We esp. thank many of those who came from afar: Mission Viejo, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Trabuco Canyon, SJC, San Clemente and Long Beach, and some who attended online from as far away as Oakland and Wyndmoor, PA. 😊

But, we esp thank our esteemed panel speakers:

☑️ Jeff Pearlman - NY Times best-selling book author, former LA Times reporter, and founder of The Truth OC (https://www.thetruthoc.com), one of OC's sharpest political voices

☑️ Jon Gould - Dean of the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology and Director of the UCI-OC Poll, bringing data-driven insight from the region’s premier public opinion research program

☑️ Ryan Dack - South OC Community College District Trustee and CA Democratic Party State Central Committee member, with frontline perspective on local and statewide races

Again, thank you all for your continued support for DGI, Irvine's largest and longest serving Democrat club!

Congratulations to Dave Min for advancing to the General Election in CA-47. 🙌 He’s delivering the leadership Orange County deserves, and we’ll keep doing the work to re-elect him in November.

We had a great kickoff to canvass for Katrina Foley for OC Supervisor, with Congressmen Dave Min and Robert Garcia!

Sign up to help GET OUT THE VOTE for the last two days at

➡️ https://www.mobilize.us/dpoc/event/963128/