I agree with you, I also see a political thing here that is entirely a reflection of societies inability to bridge political issues and focus on agreeable natio

I agree with you, I also see a political thing here that is entirely a reflection of societies inability to bridge political issues and focus on agreeable national issues at this level. Its entirely of "our" own making. The inability to establish bipartisanship in Congress to make congressional sessions more productive and not bogged down along party lines as they are today, more often than not (and increasingly so), leaves the administration with little levers to pull. Given that, we've seen presidents since Reagan use some wonky legal logic to move money around that is very much intended (in the spirit of) something, but used for something else entirely. Very often the places you have the most flexibility for this is defense, because you have the easiest time making a legal case for it if its ever challenged. If we didn't have a dysfunctional congress, which is definitely an extension of dysfunctional politics in the US, they could use the correct levers to create subsidies for this via congressional allocation, but as it sits today, you'd never get a bill through congress.