[lalaland1125]

> they can just move to the actual grant with somewhat more accounting overhead

This is not true due to the retroactive nature of this change. The problem is that the grant budgets are already fixed and will not increase. You can't move those costs to the grant budget since the grant money is already fully allocated to things like salary, etc.

In order for this to work, DOGE would have to automatically increase the grant budgets for already awarded grants, which they are unlikely to do.