History suggests the US is pretty good at acting when it perceives existential threat.
I suspect that is a truism the current administration is attempting to leverage. Unfortunately / inconveniently for them, instead of focusing on actual existential threats (climate change), they've tried to rally people behind a pretend existential threat (immigration). The people smell the rat and it seems to be back-firing.
Why they don't do the obvious thing and co-opt the green energy initiative, get into a space-race equivalent with China on solar panels and wind turbines, is a mystery to me.
We were willing to spend money doing things. The whole moon landing program cost something like $300 billion adjusted for inflation. Artemis is on a relative shoestring.
The A-4 from 1954? F-117 from 1981? B-21 that's been in development since 2015 and has had only 3 delivered so far? These are 10 year development program, the Starship still has some years to go and I'd argue a reusable moon rocket is a bit more involved than a bomber plane.
War fighting technology like aircraft is a different thing than orbital rockets and spacecraft. I'm not trying to downplay those achievements, especially the F-117, but it's apples to oranges.
that's fantasy. I've never heard of either entity delivering on time or on budget let alone ahead of time.