OP:

This is not money wasted. If they want to lower it, it needs to be done gradually to give universities time to adjust.

What exactly about the orange blob made you think he would have a carefully measured plan to do literally ANYthing?

These people are so fucking delusional-- they hear and see exactly what they want. Check out this galaxy brain:

One of the things they are doing is identifying waste. I’m sure if enough researchers make a racket about this specific thing it will get attention.

Oh yeah, I’m sure that’ll happen. Dumpy responds so well to listening to what the plebes want. He’ll get right on fixing a problem he created just as soon as he gets off the golf course. Aaaaany day now…