The changes to SLS, Orion, and Gateway have been widely speculated upon in recent months, but seeing them in black and white is still significant. The development of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft has been a budget fixture for decades, costing in excess of $3 billion a year for slow progress. The projects have been widely derided as "jobs programs." However, that is one reason Congress has so fiercely supported them: They provide good-paying, reliable jobs across the country.
I spent exactly one terrible year working on the Orion program before fleeing to my (much better) current job. During that time, there were regular newsletters and reports about how the work for the program was spread across multiple states and supporting countless subcontractors. The actual work of producing a finished good was a secondary goal, IMO.
Extra - Speaking of setting taxpayer $ on fire: "California's High-Speed Rail Project Says 'Hold My Beer,' Manages to Get Horribly, Comically Worse."
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