NASA is just like any other bloated government bureaucracy. Their white collar workers are unionized and spend way too much time filing grievances and trying to avoid work. They have all the pet departments you would expect, such as office of diversity.
No question there is waste and inefficiency and the usual bureaucracy. But a lot of the actual work in the space program is done by contractors. When I worked on a NASA contract I worked my a$$ off doing real work, showing up every day, doing the things that needed to be done.
And, when you come down to it, you can't get much more wasteful of public funds than paying people who don't work (welfare). The 'Rats know spending public money in this fashion buys them votes from those they economically enslave. It is my guess that this is where these funds will now go.