This is a pointlessly destructive move that will save insignificant amounts of money, while grossly hampering important research in the US. If we're looking for

This is a pointlessly destructive move that will save insignificant amounts of money, while grossly hampering important research in the US. If we're looking for "efficiencies" in government take a look at healthcare, look at what insurance companies are allowed to charge, what hospitals charge insurance in turn. It's a bonanza of cash that's justified in vague free market terms, while the taxpayer is stuck with a bill in the trillions. Far more than education or NIH grants, more than military spending, healthcare in this country simply robs people blind. The focus is often on bankrupted, uninsured people, but the truth is that far more is just skimmed off the top.