Duncan Hunter: “The number of 288 ships that we are the same place we were in 1916 is not something that gives us a lot of sense of…”

President Trump's Space Policy Directive-2 directs the executive branch to 'encourage American leadership in space' and 'promote economic growth.'

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

The U.S. currently has a competitive space launch industry, yet NASA payloads continue to fly on foreign launch vehicles.

Take the $18 billion, spend some portion of it to rebuild the fences that we presently have.