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On a recent Friday at 5:00 p.m., the NIH announced a decision to cap indirect payments to universities at 15% of their grants. Historically, these payments had soared as high as 90% in some cases, leaving the public skeptical about how these funds were allocated. The goal of the cap aims to improve transparency and accountability, addressing concerns that taxpayer money is being spent inefficiently and sometimes frivolously.