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Just give NASA what they're asking to run their programs properly for fuck's sake.
NASA's budget for 2023 was $25.4 billion. That was 0.4164% of the $6.1 trillion budget plan.
Less than 1/2 a percent of the budget does more for the general economic growth of this country (both public and private sector) indirectly via spinoffs from the various research projects than many larger programs do directly with their budget.
https://www.nasa.gov/technology-transfer-spinoffs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
Imagine what we could accomplish if they had the 4% of the budget that NASA had to work with during 1960s to get to the Moon during Apollo.
I suspect you're likely preaching to the choir here in this sub, but amen to that :)