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Yep, I think Trump understands that politically, people are not going to sympathize with Harvard.
Even if that money's locked up as bad as Elon's Tesla options... you can still take out tons of loans. So there aren't any excuses in the short term.
The thing is this: US life expectancy plateau'd in 2012 (I read that in a Politico interview today and fact checked it.) Which is funny because the other day I observed that industrial output plateau'd in 2012 too while labor costs rise (#978413) which i suspect both point to lack of innovation.
So, this could mean that researchers are truly assmilking public moneys for dumb research no one wants, needs or uses. I think that that could be a valid hypothesis.
Now, if you're Harvard, either you fix the issue and admit you were assmilking, or you disprove the assertion that this was the case and fund it in the interim by yourself. Well.. that or you go all spook and try to influence public opinion to give you more money without doing either, which is of course what is happening now.