This is something I’m still trying to get my head around – both the technical legislative details as well as how all this plays in political terms. The details are still fuzzy to me but I want to get the outlines in front of you. At the end of the summer we’ll be coming to the end of the fiscal year. DOGE has canceled tons of NIH grants and done various other things to make it really hard for NIH and other grant-making parts of HHS to do their work and spend the congressionally appropriated money. So by late August a very large pot of money will have built up and you will be coming to the end of the fiscal in which Congress mandated that it be spent.
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