While he definitely deserves blame for the project starting under his watch, he still did far less with it than Reagan.
>Funding officially began with $695,000 in mid-1979,[3] was increased dramatically to $20–$30 million per year in 1980, and rose to $630 million per year in 1987
His total funding of it was around 5% of what the Reagan administration spent in one of it's eleven years funding it.
>Funding officially began with $695,000 in mid-1979,[3] was increased dramatically to $20–$30 million per year in 1980, and rose to $630 million per year in 1987
His total funding of it was around 5% of what the Reagan administration spent in one of it's eleven years funding it.