Go ahead, spend YOUR money on it. For the near forseeable future it is not worthy of human endeavor other than to pay people with too much idle speculation time on their hands and expensive toys, paid for by someone else, to do it with.
You're paying. If you're Mexican, you're paying for the wall. If you're American, you'll be paying for these new telescopes, particle accelerators, and all manner of basic scientific research projects. If there's waste, ferret it out, by all means, I'm with you. But this is not it.