Great attention was paid to the way in which the high level role of Elon Musk in the white house of President Trump harmed Tesla: Sales decreaseIts action course has Slipped by her peak And embarrassed liberals are Return their cars.
Part of this attention is provided by Trump himself. “I know that you have experienced a lot,” said Trump to Musk at the meeting of today’s office, during which Musk perched at one end of the table bearing a red hat that said “Trump was right on everything.” Trump has portrayed him as a stroke of life stoically against his businesses.
“He never asked me for anything,” said Trump.
Maybe not. But even if Tesla sufferAnother of its companies is ready to take advantage of billions of dollars of new government contracts. This company is SpaceX.
My colleague Eric Lipton, investigative journalist at the Washington Times office, A File the countless ways in which SpaceX is for the benefit According to the huge sums in federal spending, even as a musk, focused on cost reduction, get a path through the government.
SpaceX positions itself to earn billions of new federal contracts from the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Communications Commission and NASA, writes Eric. The business scale is amazing, as is the potential for conflicts of interest.
Conflicts could not only come from the double roles of Musk as a managing director of Spacex and advisor to Trump. The current and recent employees of SpaceX also occupy government positions, some of which could allow them to return to SpaceX.
Some SpaceX employees work temporarily at the FAA, for example. One of them, which Eric said, has obtained official authorization to take measures that could help SpaceX, boasted on X on the construction of Starlink satellites in systems that send meteorological data to pilots – which could provide more federal activities to SpaceX in the future.
Then there is NASA, which already had more than $ 10 billion in contractual commitments to SpaceX in the last decade. Trump’s candidate to manage the agency, Jared Isaacman, bought participation in SpaceX several years ago, reported Eric, although he was recently sold. Isaacman has also traveled in space twice on the company’s private flights.
In addition, Michael Altenhofen, the former director of sales and human space flight products from SpaceX, is now a principal advisor to NASA. (Altenhofen left the company on New Year’s Eve after working there for 15 years, according to a spokesperson for NASA.)
All of this seems to be good for SpaceX’s results. The company has private attire, but forbes recently estimated This musk participation in the company was worth $ 147 billion, more than its participation in Tesla.
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‘I am ready to go away’
The agency of veterans was the development of the practice of virtual health care two decades ago to reach veterans who were socially isolated or lived in rural areas, and over the years, it has hired mental health suppliers in fully distant positions to focus on the performance of these remote care.
The orders of return to the office pushed by President Trump and the Ministry of Efficiency of the Government attracted these providers to the offices where there is not enough room to accommodate them, or to ensure the privacy of patients, my colleagues Ellen Barry, Nicholas Nehamas and Roni Caryn Rabin reported during the weekend.
Based on more than three dozen interviews with current mental health workers and recently dismissed in the VA, they learned that a system that Trump campaigned on improvement is in troubles.
“I am ready to leave if it comes there,” a psychiatrist wrote to her manager in an SMS.
“I understand,” replied the manager. “Many of us are ready to move away.”
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Judges and lawyers also deriving
Elon Musk uses his X account as megaphone. My colleague Kate Conger explains how he uses it to try to influence legal proceedings.
One of Musk’s targets on X last weekend was a state judge in Delaware.
“The heritage of Kathleen McCormick will go bankrupt the state of Delaware,” he wrote on Sunday, calling a state judge who last year canceled its Tesla Pay packageworth nearly $ 50 billion. (His post has poorly spelled his first name, Kathaleen.)
He also continued after a federal district judge James E. Boasberg, who questioned the Trump administration concerning his use of a powerful status in wartime to summarily expeling Venezuelan immigrants accused of being members of a violent street gang. By identifying a report by the judge who said that the sorrows of some January 6, 2021, the rioters had not been hard enough, wrote Musk: “Wow is crazy.“He also wrote that Boasberg had”A nasty look.“”
But one of the most surprising messages of Musk called a large law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which managed its $ 44 billion offer for Twitter in 2022. Despite its history with the cabinet, Musk experienced a problem with his work on Sunday, a Souza Dinesh film, the writer and the director of “2,000 mules” wrongly Generalized fraud took place during the 2020 elections.
Of Souza said that the Analysis used in the filmWho claimed to represent a large ring of “mules”, illegally bringing together a large number of voting bulletins and surreptitiously place them in deposit boxes, was incorrect. He apologized to a voter of Georgia wrongly accused in the film of having committed electoral fraud.
But Souza wrote on X Sunday that Skadden Arps had “engaged in a systematic right” to harm his project.
To which Musk replied: “Skadden, it must stop now.”
It is unusual to see a major customer like Musk making public requests concerning the work of a law firm for other customers, and it was not clear if Skadden Arps, who did not respond to a request for comments, would comply.
– Kate Conger
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These wrestling fans like Trump, but not musk
My colleague Shawn McCreesh spent his Saturday evening at the Division I struggle championship, where President Trump and Elon Musk also took the fight.
Fans were widely delighted with Trump. But their feelings about musk were a little more complicated.
“Not a big fan of Elon,” said Blaize Cabell, a 32 -year -old wrestling coach from Independence, Iowa.
“I do not even know what to think of him at this stage,” said David Berkovich, a 24 -year -old wrestler and raises higher education in Brooklyn, about Musk. “He’s just there all the time.”