I disagree that leaving funding in the hands of a single bureaucracy will lead to the outcomes you hope. Funding for the super-conducting super-collider set in

I disagree that leaving funding in the hands of a single bureaucracy will lead to the outcomes you hope. Funding for the super-conducting super-collider set in Waxahachie, Texas was cut as a direct result of the 1992 US Presidential election. The scientific community was in agreement on its advantages, but political retribution won out. That the LHC survived was due in large part by the desire of European agencies to bring science back to Europe. That the US had failed to complete construction of their beam operations gave them an opening and and opportunity. This is the motiviation more so, I would say, than it was any desire to fund basic research in HE physics.