funneled it to NPR and PBS, is officially dissolved. Now there was probably a time when I would have thought, man, I hate to see my government defund a place that gives me the news. But what we know recently about any of these mainstream media entities is they're definitely not helping. They were not really additive to the country. And so when you see cuts to these venerable institutions, what president could make a cut to a venerable institution? Only Trump. He's like the only one who could do it.

But it doesn't work every time because there's a court ruling. Newsmax is reporting that Trump had tried to cut a big part of the National Institute of Health funding for scientific and medical research to these big colleges and institutions. But a three-judge panel just ruled that he can't do that. I'm not good enough on the legal stuff to know why he can't do that, but that's a ruling.

Now there's an argument I hear on what I'm going to call my side that I don't think holds up. And maybe that's the problem too. So part of the argument for making cuts to places like Harvard is that a few of the big institutions, it doesn't apply to all of them but the biggest ones, have these enormous endowments that means that people have donated massive amounts of money and they have that money for various Harvard uses. So the argument went, if you already have so much money, why does the government need to give you any more? Because the endowment doesn't get spent every year. It just sits there and grows.

Here's what people generally don't know about the endowments that you should add to your knowledge bank. Most of them, and I think most is the right word, but some large number of them are not available for anybody who wants to use it for anything. They ar