I have worked on several NIH and NSF funded projects at universities, in some cases as a Principal Investigator! And I went to Harvard graduate school on an NSF Fellowship!
All our great new lifesaving cancer therapies were initially developed via federal grants to universities!
Science students and faculty are MUCH less likely to support leftist causes like “Palestine”, or to shout down invited speakers whom leftists hate! They don’t have time to interrupt their research!
Keep the science grant pipeline flowing!