Yes. America is a total freak, and exceptionalism is real. Russia's economy is significantly smaller than the state of Texas, despite 5x the population and over 24x the land mass. Has anybody else noticed that China has been losing ground by the trillions? FFS, lol. They're going bye-bye until like 2070 as a serious economic and geopolitical challenger (if ever). The only fundamental action even required by US Congress is essentially budget authorization for a handful of departments, agencies, and FFRDCs. The national debt doesn't really mean shit either, mere pittance when weighed against total US government assets and American household net worth.
(Granted: it does kind of suck if you're a renter and don't have any property to your name, though. On average, US homeowners have a net worth 40x greater than renters)
Voyager (1&2) is one of humanity's all-time great achievements.
There are numerous feats to its name that can't be done for the first time again. It was the first to observe volcanic activity on another world, the first and only mission to complete a 'grand tour' of the outer planets of the solar system, the first and only to directly explore Uranus (1986), first and only to explore Neptune (1989), first and only thus far to cross into and explore Interstellar Space (2012). From 1977-1989 alone, it had collected enough scientific data to fill 6,000 editions of Britannica Encyclopedia.
There are even anthropomorphic qualities to it that aren't seen nor given to pretty much any other spacecraft ever launched, and they've been active for nearly half a century now. That's predominantly due to the Golden Record and its encapsulation of humanity but also for things such as the family portrait of the solar system that served as the inspiration for Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" monologue set to Vangelis, just things that we'll never quite be able to duplicate again. It's also a virtual certainty that Voyager(s) will outlast human existence itself.
