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Except the issues aren't really tied to defunding.
NASA fundamentally changed who bears risk on space projects, pushing the risk to the open market. Legacy aerospace companies have been unable to compete when they have to eat cost overruns. A lot of startups have also been failing as well.
If the market was more mature, with multiple successful SpaceX like companies, this wouldn't be an issue.