I keep getting hints that there is some fight behind the scenes in US biology over how much money should be devoted to exploratory vs translational research. C

I keep getting hints that there is some fight behind the scenes in US biology over how much money should be devoted to exploratory vs translational research. Comments like these pretend as if this wasn't a difficult trade off, that we need a huge shift in one direction, and that this direction is so obviously better we don't even need to discuss the relative amounts involved.