The roughly $300 million Musk spent to help elect Trump is starting to look like a pretty good deal. The billionaire owner of SpaceX and Tesla now stands to net a great deal more in federal contracts. From the New York Times:
Within the Trump administration’s Defense Department, Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketry is being trumpeted as the nifty new way the Pentagon could move military cargo rapidly around the globe.
In the Commerce Department, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service will now be fully eligible for the federal government’s $42 billion rural broadband push, after being largely shut out during the Biden era.
At NASA, after repeated nudges by Mr. Musk, the agency is being squeezed to turn its focus to Mars, allowing SpaceX to pursue federal contracts to deliver the first humans to the distant planet.
And at the Federal Aviation Administration and the White House itself, Starlink satellite dishes have recently been installed, to expand federal government internet access.
The report goes on to note that SpaceX would likely be the primary beneficiary of Trump’s plan for a Golden Dome, which — in theory — would work like a modernized version of Reagan’s failed “Star Wars” missile defense program. One former Pentagon comptroller has estimated the annual cost of operating the Golden Dome to be $100 billion.
The New York Times reported last week that the Pentagon had arranged to brief Musk on what it plans to do if war breaks out between the U.S. and China. The Pentagon opted to cancel that meeting after the leak, but SpaceX would gain a lot of valuable information on the Pentagon’s future procurement needs should Musk receive a similar briefing in the future.
Let’s just load him on his spacex rocket and shoot to Mars-he wants to be there anyway!
And hoping it'll explode on the way there!
I ran across this a little while ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
From the New York Times-
The roughly $300 million Musk spent to help elect Trump is starting to look like a pretty good deal. The billionaire owner of SpaceX and Tesla now stands to net a great deal more in federal contracts. From the New York Times:
Within the Trump administration’s Defense Department, Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketry is being trumpeted as the nifty new way the Pentagon could move military cargo rapidly around the globe.
In the Commerce Department, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service will now be fully eligible for the federal government’s $42 billion rural broadband push, after being largely shut out during the Biden era.
At NASA, after repeated nudges by Mr. Musk, the agency is being squeezed to turn its focus to Mars, allowing SpaceX to pursue federal contracts to deliver the first humans to the distant planet.
And at the Federal Aviation Administration and the White House itself, Starlink satellite dishes have recently been installed, to expand federal government internet access.
The report goes on to note that SpaceX would likely be the primary beneficiary of Trump’s plan for a Golden Dome, which — in theory — would work like a modernized version of Reagan’s failed “Star Wars” missile defense program. One former Pentagon comptroller has estimated the annual cost of operating the Golden Dome to be $100 billion.
The New York Times reported last week that the Pentagon had arranged to brief Musk on what it plans to do if war breaks out between the U.S. and China. The Pentagon opted to cancel that meeting after the leak, but SpaceX would gain a lot of valuable information on the Pentagon’s future procurement needs should Musk receive a similar briefing in the future.