Don't fall for this talking point. The NASA budget is less than 1/2 of one percent of the federal budget. You could terminate the whole thing tomorrow and see no budgetary benefit at all. It's the entitlements that are killing us financially.
But more than that, in our modern, industrial high-tech society, our lives are dependent on critical satellite assets for which we currently have no means of protection and maintenance. That was the real purpose and value of returning to the Moon: to build a permanent, space faring system for Earth-Moon space, one that could access all of our national security and economic satellites.
Thank you.