This article mentions Funding of Privacy-Conscious Software, one thing that concerns me is, I am quoting from Wikipedia here, "..As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Proj

This article mentions Funding of Privacy-Conscious Software, one thing that concerns me is, I am quoting from Wikipedia here, "..As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government..". So, the United States government funds programs that help secure the identity of the people and the government also spends money on surveillance programs such as PRISM. Can't the government just stop funding projects such as Tor any time they please? In such scenario, aren't we at the mercy of the very government to protect our identity that runs surveillance programs?