Should have, but they didn’t.
They started spending money on things like studies on fursuits in the military, funding border security overseas, sending money to Iran, funding NGO’s to bring more illegals in and print materials to tell them how to game the system, and funding programs with kickbacks to themselves and others that will not benefit the “Whole Space battle” objectives.
Same as every Western country.
It’s like we are governed by a single globally co-ordinated elite...