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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it begins.

NIH lowers allowable indirect costs from 60% to 15%.

Seismic.

Indirect costs pay for the building maintenance, admin salaries, utilities, etc.

Johns Hopkins going to get slaughtered.[/quote]

I just said it in another thread, but this will result in more direct billing.  You'll have grant applications with budget lines for electricity, grant specialist support, admin support, etc.[/quote]

As someone who does work in this space this will just make more administrative burden and more paperwork. So the opposite purpose of the new order. [/quote]

Joining to say the same. I see two likely possibilities: 1) grants are written with extremely specific language that defines in directs and directs which causes more paperwork and admin work to quantify and track and 2) shifting expenses to "direct" will open opportunities for overpriced contractor or support type stuff potentially making the total grant more expensive.

I agree we need to reduce waste but please understand NOTHING that is happening today is addressing waste despite what FOX news says. it is all GENERATING waste:

Federal workforce reduction
100,000 worker typically leave the federal workforce annually via attrition. There is no extra cost for that. Trump is claiming to pay people (if he actually pays them we will see) a buyout to not work. if less than 100,000 take the deal, that is WASTED funds. Currently 60k have agreed to take it. Every law suit associated with this is millions in WASTE.

USAID
Food and supplies stranded in ports spoiling all over the world is WASTE. Giving our adversaries the partnerships in the countries we were helping will cost MORE in the future when we are bidding for their resources.

RX drugs
Signing an EO to stop giving medicare and medicaid the ability to negotiate drug prices = WASTED spend to big pharma and higher prices for YOU.

TARIFF "threats"
Damage to trading partner relationships and general confusion now has every company figuring out how to increase prices to the consumer so they can ride out the uncertainty. More COST for you.

FAA
Firing key official and disrupting an understaffed agency WASTED lives. More planes down this week. More wasted lives and laws suits to follow. More WASTE.

If the administration really wanted to find immediate savings they would go after the biggest piece of the pie: military. Instead they are going after USAID which is less than 1% of spend. And say they DO find some $ in these ridiculous tactics? Do you really think it will be used to pay down debt or allocated to something useful that will help the average citizen??

btw my grocery prices were up 15% last week and I didn't even buy eggs!

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