Dialing back federal funding strikes the Triangle’s acclaimed research complex. - Business North Carolina

Dialing back federal funding strikes the Triangle’s acclaimed research complex. - Business North Carolina

When the wrecking ball known as DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) began its run through the federal bureaucracy earlier this year, it was inevitable that North Carolina would find itself in its path. With a multiplicity of nonprofits and federally funded university research organizations, the Triangle region looked especially vulnerable. And so it has proven to be. It has never been hard to find tales of government waste, as Ronald …