Elon Musk savaged as SpaceX gets new $40m defense contract amid his cutting of federal spending

[Eugene]

Elon Musk savaged as SpaceX gets new $40m defense contract amid his cutting of federal spending (The Independent)

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.

“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.

Stancil shared a screenshot that appeared to confirm that Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was awarded a NASA contract worth just shy of $39 million on Tuesday.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-ripped-spacex-gets-002815351.html

[mwmisses4289]

1. And that is why he is slashing everything else.

Can't let all that juicy money go to anyone or anything else- "It's all mine, mine I tell ya!".

[tavernier]

2. They print this as if

there is no connection.

[newdeal2]

3. Eloon will soon threaten anyone who reveals his government dealings

[sakabatou]

4. No one should be fucking surprised

[Initech]

5. We're suffering needless consequences so this motherfucker can be a trillionaire.

He needs a one way ticket to Mars on one of his shitty rockets NOW.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Kill a starving kid in Africa just so MuskRat

can create his giant penis ship to Mars.

[WarGamer]

7. fuck spacex, we can get those astronauts home from the ISS in a hot air ballon, right?

Or they can put some heavy weights around their ankles and drop down to earth... with parachutes right?