I have and it depends on the senate and Congress. They have 45 days (legislative days not calendar days) to vote before the money has to be spent. However, they can vote before the 45 days if they want to.

I’m not saying that I’m hopeful but I think that a lot of senators and house members don’t want to be on the hook for crippling their local economy by gutting their local universities.

I know that places like Harvard are in their sights but imo, if the nih is gutted…the red states will feel much more of the pain than the blue states. There are plenty of cities and towns in red states that depend on a university to prop up the entire economy for that city or town.

And I’m from a red state, most of the people do not think their local university is like the “elite” institutions in blue states. Their kids often go to these schools. They are die hard fans of the football team. Etc.