ah. my source within NSF tells me that payments for active awards are operating normally, but that they may have put a hold on the issuance of subsequent installments from continuing grants

If you do an NSF advanced award search and restrict to awards made on or after May 1, 2025, you get "Your search did not return any results" (if you enter 4/30/25, you get 19 hits; 4/29/25-->96 hits, so it does seem like they've stopped for now)

for DOE: (www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-ener...)
april 11: DOE announces cap
april 14: lawsuit filed (APLU, AAU, ACE, + 9 universities)
april 16: MA district court issued temporary restraining order to prevent DOE from implementing rate cap policy
only 5 days from announcement to restraining order

for NIH:
feb 7: cut announced
feb 10: implementation of cut
feb 10: 3 lawsuits filed by academic inst, NGOs, 22 state attorneys
april 4: federal judge blocked implementation of the cap
ongoing: NIH appealing block
so simplistically applying the same timing: ~2 months from announcement to block

Did they indicate that this was temporary?

Shouldn't the Chips Act supersede new NSF priorities?

There is a public law: Chips Act, title III, subtitle C (Sec. 10328) "The NSF shall make awards to enable institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations (or consortia of them) to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM studies and careers."

I was forwarded this document (www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...) that lays out a hierarchy of authorities, suggesting that a public law supersedes an EO which supersedes NSF policy.