This one shady contract is worth over half of the NSF cuts in the House GOP budget. So: cutting-edge research into basic sciences and engineering? Or mailing a check for a billion dollars to a random house promising to build prison camps? For GOP, it’s a no-brainer!
Or, accept a "free" plane from Qatar and divert $400+ million from the Sentinel ICBM program to retrofit it. 1st, accepting the plane makes the US look stupid. 2nd, diverting money from upgrading our nuke program just so the narcissistic little child can have a new toy is just pathetic.