The first one is small. It would be a line in three different pieces of legislation, which would just commit the federal granting agencies to political and ideological neutrality. If it's in their legislative mandates, that would make it difficult—of course, not impossible—for the agencies to go on with these explicitly politicized grants.
In addition, I recommend eliminating, obviously, these explicitly EDI-focused grants. I think most people who hear about them are in agreement. Perhaps a little more controversially, I recommend removing all references to equity, diversity and inclusion from the granting agencies' websites and supporting materials because of the slippage, because calls for inclusion in a research team can move to calls for political activism so quickly.
With regard to some of the things the other witnesses spoke about today—about wanting grants that, for example, study diverse populations—we can put that in granting criteria without having the language of EDI and EDI action plans transposed over all three granting agencies. We can be more targeted, more specific, about what we're looking for, and the language of EDI doesn't allow us to do that. It's so fuzzy. It enables researchers to move in any direction—and, most troublingly, in an activist direction—with their research.