Duncan Hunter: “How was the money appropriated? So if you do a multiyear, so say you are buying ships over 3 years, for example. How…”

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.

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

But they also cut another $700 million past that, and that was mostly going toward shoreside infrastructure?

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