First they came for his cars with insane tariffs and now they want to screw with Space-X? Oh no!
Elon Musk said reports that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would drastically cut NASA’s science funding were “troubling,” the latest public break between the president and his close adviser.
Musk’s Friday morning comments mark his second major public split with Trump in areas that impact the entrepreneur’s companies, amid reports that Musk will soon step back from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency.
The billionaire has also appeared to diverge from the party line on tariffs — repeatedly targeting Peter Navarro, one of the public faces of Trump’s trade agenda — as the administration launched sweeping duties on global trading partners, causing major market volatility and resulting in billions of dollars of losses for Musk’s Tesla.
Musk’s latest swipe at the administration’s policies comes as reports of cuts to NASA funding surfaced Friday. Musk’s SpaceX is one of the agency’s largest contractors. The SpaceX CEO replied to a report from technology news outlet Ars Technica that the Office of Management and Budget’s draft budget proposal for NASA would cut roughly 20 percent of the agency’s overall budget, and 50 percent of its science agency funding, calling the news “troubling.”
Imagine that. He’s taken a chainsaw to the rest of the government and now it’s coming for him. There’s a lesson in that.