Maybe Washington Examiner should be more thorugh before they publish an article. Considering that ULA receives more tax payers money for each launch than SpaceX. ULA and the Air Force is also helping developing the Blue Origin BE-4 and the Rocketdyne AR1 for use on ULAs new Vulcan rocket booster due to launch for the first time around 2020, well before the ban on the RD180. Of course Blue Origin is also developing it's own launch system called the New Glenn, which in capabilities will be placed between SpaceXs Flacon 9 and Falcon Heavy.

The main thing about the new space race is the continued development of new technology reducing the price for access to space both for private companies and the government, thus reducing the amount of tax payers money used to send equipment to space.