No, cutting SLS and Orion are good ideas, and overdue ones at that.

1) It’s too expensive to be sustainable.
2) It bodes to be too dangerous to fly humans on.
3) It has enormous opportunity costs, both of the resources expended on it, and the aerospace talent wasting their skills on it.

On top of this the NASA science budget seems to be purely a political target, at a cost the proponents do not seem to care about. Will they every be held accountable for these actions that directly undermine the US internally and externally? Who do they think they are fooling outside their most vocal constituents?

Of course they want all NASA money to flow through private business, and to cut any programs exclusively related to science. that’s what decades of cuts have been about, but these projects involve external contractors. cutting Artemis
doesn’t just hamstring the careers of the people involved, but also kills contracts that are in progress, meaning a net loss of hundreds of millions at least as NASA and taxpayers don’t get ownership of the technology that taxpayer money went to, and much of it will be scrapped.