Sure he did because he thought they should be focusing on new propulsion and heavy lift rockets to make space exploration cheaper and easier. The constellation project was to return to the moon. Which when you think about it the return on the dollar isn't there. NASAs budget actually increased almost every year under Obama.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-budgets-us-spending-space-travel