People should pay attention. They are weakening or releasing more staff when they already cannot do grant admin.
They are forward funding grants to remove future financial obligations for FY27.
Something disruptive is afoot.
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Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things:
1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages).
2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status.
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