When congress rescinded already approved funding for PBS (after a pressure campaign from Trump), someone told me “well, we need to be financially responsible as a country”.
Watching what this country has spent money on since reminds me of the old Eisenhower quote:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”