How much can the Executive Branch mess with the laws Congress has passed before "checks and balances" fails entirely and we have a dictatorship of the Executive?
One thing I learned in the past decade is how much democracy depends on decorum. It needs more solid protection mechanisms than just that.
Some people would cheer soldiers removing books from a library to just suppress information and culture, but this is transferring money into the rest of their agenda, this will not be general taxpayer savings.
Drug companies do some basic research too, but their focus is on applications like drug development.
There's a large but not complete overlap.
Think of it like lasers. NIH is where you might see someone do research into the theory of light. The commercial medical industry is where you might see research into creating lasers of a particular colour, power, etc.