Which the government will pay for when needed, and they already have debt from that happening anyway. Why can’t they use the unused money for something else? Couldn’t they do that instead of needing constant fundraising and scammy practices regarding charging students too much? $35 million each year is not a small amount that can just go unused.
Maybe not polycam in specific, since they too believe that you need lidar to get high quality scans, which isn’t true at all.