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I agree that selling a "small grant" program to congress will be harder than the big Science & Technology Centers at top-quartile universities. But this is a matter of scientific infrastructure. If the present trend keeps up, departments at the second tier schools won't be able to pay for their graduate students from external fellowships, and some of the second tier Ph.D. programs will by necessity close down. If the second tier programs close instruction of undergraduates will suffer, and that has long-term implications for the health of science in the US.