I just read that all funding for NIH projects has been suspended -- which affects up to 300K jobs at universities and research institutes.
I think that's a pause on awarding new funding--which is horrible enough, don't get me wrong--because if there was a general stop-work order on all NIH-funded work we would be in full-on panic mode right now instead of just having our ordinary discussions about our continuing struggles to do our daily work with Workday.
In a sane world, any blanket cuts to DHHS grants would run into a brick wall labeled "No" in Congress because it's such a huge hidden driver of the economy, especially if you have a big research university or two in your state, which most of them do, even a lot of red states. But we're not living in a sane world, so who knows?