Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio for information on the Trump administration’s contingency plans if billionaire Elon Musk breaches his companies’ current contracts with the U.S. amid the ongoing public fall out between him and President Trump.
In a letter to Rubio as acting national security adviser and obtained by CBS News, Warren said Mr. Trump and Musk’s public disagreements about the upcoming reconciliation bill that escalated into a public online spat could “have serious implications for U.S. national security.”
The Massachusetts Democrat mentioned Mr. Trump’s proposal to terminate Musk’s government contracts and subsidies, which the world’s richest man followed with a threat that SpaceX would “begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.” Musk has since walked back his threat.
Good for Warren for keeping on top of this, but we need more than contingency plans. We need better laws to protect politics from corporate interests. I understand it’s been this way for a long time in the US and that we won’t be able to end it, but we’ve seen how dangerous and extreme the system can allow it to be now and it must be curtailed.
Can we crowd fund our politicians to our side for once?
I’m behind the news, musk backed out? So not just Taco but maco?
What do you mean by backed out, exactly? He is no longer working with DOGE if thats what you mean
I think they’re referring to him threatening to decommission the dragon capsule and then immediately dropping that
Unfortunately, the contingency plan is going to be “Give more money to Boeing and Lockheed Martin,” and we saw how that went with Starliner.
Marco Rubio
I’m sure he’ll take this very seriously, as he clearly has had the best interest of the American people in mind 🙄
As well-meaning as Warren is, neither she nor anyone else can do anything. We live in the new reality of fascism.
