Duncan Hunter: “I may not be a scientist, but as a politician, I can tell when someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes.”

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

This is modern politics and modern media mixed in with law enforcement that has a political agenda. That's a new Department of Justice.

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.