{"id":29199,"date":"2025-06-06T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29199"},"modified":"2025-06-06T23:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:27:31","slug":"trump-has-options-to-punish-musk-even-if-his-federal-contracts-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29199","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan\u2019s businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk\u2019s contracts less feasible.<\/p>\n

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After the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk exploded into warfare Thursday, Mr. Trump suggested that he might eliminate the tech titan\u2019s federal contracts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Mr. Trump posted on his social media platform.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not as easy as Mr. Trump implies. The Pentagon and NASA remain intensely reliant on SpaceX, Mr. Musk\u2019s rocket launch and space-based communications company, to get to orbit and move government data across the world.<\/p>\n

But there are options available to the president that could make Mr. Musk\u2019s relationship with the federal government much more difficult<\/a> than it has been so far in Mr. Trump\u2019s second administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Trump\u2019s most accessible weapon to punish Mr. Musk is the ability to instruct federal regulators to intensify oversight of his business operations, reversing a slowdown in regulatory actions that benefited Mr. Musk\u2019s businesses after Mr. Trump was elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an administration that has defined itself by reducing regulation and oversight, it would not be difficult to selectively ramp up oversight again,\u201d said Steven L. Schooner, a former White House contracts lawyer who is now a professor at George Washington University.<\/p>\n

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The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan\u2019s businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk\u2019s contracts less feasible.After the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk exploded into warfare Thursday, Mr. Trump suggested that he might eliminate the tech titan\u2019s federal contracts.\u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Mr. Trump posted on his social media platform.That\u2019s not as easy as Mr. Trump implies. The Pentagon and NASA remain intensely reliant on SpaceX, Mr. Musk\u2019s rocket launch and space-based communications company, to get to orbit and move government data across the world.But there are options available to the president that could make Mr. Musk\u2019s relationship with the federal government much more difficult than it has been so far in Mr. Trump\u2019s second administration.Mr. Trump\u2019s most accessible weapon to punish Mr. Musk is the ability to instruct federal regulators to intensify oversight of his business operations, reversing a slowdown in regulatory actions that benefited Mr. Musk\u2019s businesses after Mr. Trump was elected.\u201cIn an administration that has defined itself by reducing regulation and oversight, it would not be difficult to selectively ramp up oversight again,\u201d said Steven L. Schooner, a former White House contracts lawyer who is now a professor at George Washington University.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29201,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29202,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199\/revisions\/29202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}