The White House has directed the US Defense Department and NASA to gather details on billions of dollars in SpaceX contracts following the public blowout between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
Sources speaking to the Reuters news agency say that the agencies will scrutinise Musk’s contracts to prepare possible retaliation against the businessman and his companies following his fallout with Trump.
Pentagon officials are simultaneously considering whether to reduce the role that SpaceX, Musk’s space and satellite company, may have in an ambitious new US missile defence system.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for launch. (Picture: Terry Renna/AP)The people familiar with the order said the contract scrutiny is intended to give the administration the ability to move fast if Trump decides to act against Musk, who until recently was a senior advisor to the president and the head of the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
“There’s an irony here that Musk’s contracts could be under the same type of subjective political scrutiny that he and his Doge team have put on thousands of other contracts,” said Scott Amey, a contracting expert and general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group in Washington.
Musk in recent days has sought to walk back some of his critiques of the president, such as calling for Trump’s impeachment last week and linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Before reversing course, Musk threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, the only US vessel currently capable of carrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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