Because we are good at throwing money down the toilet. This is the last thing we need to be doing. Let’s take the money that we will waste and put it towards the debt? I know it is an old fashioned concept of paying the debt before doing stupid things like this but if we want to save our country this is who we have to do it.
The debt, better funding for vets' health care AND a border wall.
Just remember the computer you’re in front of would be at least 20 years away without the space program. Not to mention the fact that it is inevitable that someway somehow we’re going to lose the rock and if we don’t have a sustainable subsection of humanity elsewhere everything else we did doesn’t matter. It’s not a waste, it’s survival. There’s plenty of other stupid programs to cut, this one needs a massive increase, space is what matters.
I suspect NASA funding has always been part of the “black” fund...