Walk me through a budget cycle where your funding arrived late or came in below request — a continuing resolution, a mid-year cut, a hiring freeze. How did you decide what your program would stop doing?

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Make the trade-off visible — what got dropped, and why. Quantify if you can; if you can’t, be specific about the signal. Show how the prioritization stuck (or didn’t).

Walk me through a budget cycle where your funding arrived late or came in below request — a continuing resolution, a mid-year cut, a hiring freeze. How did you decide what your program would stop doing?

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