Elon Musk prompted yet another heavy backlash online after it was revealed that his rocket company SpaceX was still receiving multi-million dollar contracts from the U.S. government amid his crusade to slash trillions of federal funding.
“So let me get this straight, he wants contracts for cancer research cancelled but says let keep contracts for his company Spacex to do research,” she wrote.
“You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit,” attorney and researcher Will Stancil wrote on X.
It comes as Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, spoke to reporters from the Oval Office on Tuesday, where he insisted that there was no conflict of interest in his companies taking money from agencies, including the Pentagon, where he was looking to make cuts.
It's people at SpaceX… and I like to say if you see any contract where it was awarded to SpaceX and it wasn't by far the best value for the taxpayer, let me know – because every one of them was.”.
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