> do these make something a target for cessation of funding and possible seizure?

Yes, there's a general funding purge in process, causing uncertainty about outstanding NSF grants. OP mentioning DEI specifically might be in reference to e.g. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-led-investigatio...

Some earlier discussions on that one in particular:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046466

Tao made some remarks on what this means in practice here: https://mastodon.social/@tao@mathstodon.xyz/1139100739588910...