Presumably a lot of the funds in the terminated grants were for running programs that had other direct costs beyond pure headcount… That’s the thing that isn’t

Presumably a lot of the funds in the terminated grants were for running programs that had other direct costs beyond pure headcount… That’s the thing that isn’t being reported well, IMHO: federal grants aren’t just gifts that the government gives universities, they are contracts for universities to perform services (conducting very specific research programs with well-specified deliverables, running very specific educational activities for carefully defined populations of learners, etc.).