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thedrakeequator t1_j6nz3rs wrote

It depends on what decade you're talking about.

During the cold war it was probably Republicans.

But recently they've been responsible for cutting budget.

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[deleted] t1_j6o0vm8 wrote

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thedrakeequator t1_j6o11vh wrote

So the reason it went down under Obama was because the "Big Spending" republicans forced him to cut it.

But yes, outside of the cold war it does seem to be random.

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Spooky2000 t1_j6o1ylo wrote

>So the reason it went down under Obama was because the "Big Spending" republicans forced him to cut it.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/322918-how-barack-obama-ruined-nasa-space-exploration/

Obama canceled the Constelation project without going through congress at all.

https://phys.org/news/2011-02-obama-five-year-nasa.html

https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.budget.moon/index.html

But you're right, must have been all those pesky Republicans..

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tiy24 t1_j6o6xoe wrote

They were attacking him for spending and he cut nasa in an attempt to appeal to republicans who wouldn’t accept military cuts.

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Spacecadet222 t1_j6o7jgn wrote

Read it, it's an Obama administration smear. The part about Obama's "antipathy towards American exceptionalism" should have told you this was some editorializing bullshit.

If you don't recall, the Obama administration was at the time trying to pass a lil measure called the Affordable Care Act and receiving withering criticism over it's propensity to swell federal deficits. It's not surprising he made trade-offs for a program his own White House commission deemed infeasible with current funding.

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