Duncan Hunter: “But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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

Our entire way of life is dependent on space. And our, not enemies necessarily, but our competitors know that.

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.

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