"Buh-bye soft-money faculty", says the NSF

Oi. The Quantum Pontiff points to a brand new NSF policy which contains this little gem:

The significant changes include:
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* A major revision of NSF’s faculty salary reimbursement policy, to limit compensation for senior personnel to no more than two months of their regular salary in any one year from all NSF-funded grants;

Gulp. The NIH has also been muttering about getting local institutions to start pulling more of the load lately. Think this is around the corner for NIH-funding as well?