I think it's important, because we're talking about research, universities and risks for national security.
One of the few sticks we keep hearing about is pulling funding from research projects that we consider too risky to fund, in terms of national security. However, if federal funding is only a small part of that funding, it seems to me there are other sources researchers at universities could go to. Sometimes, these are perhaps funding sources we would rather they not go to. That's all.