@BlogWood

My employer receives a large amount in NIH grants annually. While they must have a buffer for 1-2 year budget impacts, I imagine the NIH cuts will close about 700,000 square feet of research space, basically 12 floors that can fit a football field on each floor.

That’s a lot of layoffs. A lot of rare disease research will be gone. That’s what will really hurt. That will probably not come back. Some of the equipment is custom made and manufactured nowhere else.