Ahead of schedule, under budget, ready to launch early next year - kill it. That describes the Trump administration in a nutshell: completely inept.

Here's a related prior discussion of proposed cuts at NASA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653605

The proposed cuts, if enacted, will devestate scientific research at NASA (50% cut to science programs).

> The agency received the draft on April 10, one day after Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, insisted in his nomination hearing that the U.S. could send humans to the moon and Mars and “do all the other things” with NASA’s current budget. “I do believe the president is looking to usher in the golden age of science and discovery,” Isaacman said.

There's something very... North Korea about the whole Trump thing; this bizarrely effusive praise of Dear Leader, spouting obviously delusional rubbish that everyone knows is delusional (no, NASA is not sending people to Mars on its current budget, don't be silly).