They killed the moon base, the Mars exploration program, and the development of most manned space vehicles. The remaining vehicle was scaled down to pick up and study a dishwasher sized asteroid located in near-Earth orbit.
President Trump has proposed an increase in NASA funding to fund exploratory space excursions, but this has been rigorously opposed by the Democrats. Their argument is that by cutting funding now flowing to Muslim nations, they might get upset and start to be violent. The Democrats do not want to see televised angry Islamic mobs.
In their minds, by keeping NASA funding flowing to Islamic nations in the Mideast, world prosperity can continue flowing globally. The USA would be recognized as the source for all this free goodwill.
