But isn't NASA's budget lowered? They aren't really doing mass projects, which they abandoned ~1 year ago. Using Russian crafts to send them into space to fix the ISS.
Also wouldn't bases from space cost even more money? The stuff would have to be launched from Earth, and then launches from wherever. If you were (somehow) producing from the terrestrial object, the factory would needed to be built, and we would need oxygen mask for stuff like that. Plus, we don't have a habitable planet in our system as far as we know, and even if that, the gravity/size of the planet would have to be relatively the same. Even if you used the Delta-V, there would still be a cost. Nothing comes free.