As a matter of fact, I do.
My cousin was an engineer for NASA before he got laid off. He said it just bled money. He developed a torque wrench that could be used in space, it had to handle so many hundreds of degrees of heat and cold without expansion, and he said after all the receipts, manpower, etc, it cost over 200k to develop. I was blown away when he told me. They also have to keep a certain amount on each craft and so many in storage. That's just one torque wrench, imagine all the other tools they have to create and build and maintain stock of. Plus salaries, etc. While there are 2 wars and the height of a recession.
It's not like NASA completely shut down, they still have missions, and scientists, engineers, etc. Just not at the level they had before.
It makes sense to me