re: Trump budget: 20% cut to NIH

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I'd be willing to bet they could lose 35% funding and still do exactly what their purpose is. Anybody that has worked in government realizes how much waste there is.

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I am a contractor and do work for a Government Agency.

Here is a quick example of waste.

When they move a worker from one cube to another they charge the government $2500. The work is being performed by people all ready employed by the government to do these tasks. This is not a bean counter costing function either because the moves are done as contract mods at additional expense.

The area in which I work had 10 employees moved to another building while they did work on their cubicles and the contract was paid 25000 for the 10 employees being moved and then 25000 when they were moved back 4 days later.
The real egregious part was the employees never actually moved to the other building because they couldn't do work in the other building due to their classified work and lack of access. Instead they were set up in a conference room inside the lab where they were.

These things are not isolated. It is the way the government works.