
Friday comments Elona Muska is already Second major public breakdown with Donald Trump in areas that affect businesses. The billionaire first seemed to deviate from the organization line — repeatedly attacking Peter Navarro, 1 of Trump's commercial programs — erstwhile the administration introduced extended tariffs on global trading partners, causing crucial marketplace volatility and resulting in billions of dollars of failure to Tesla Muska.
In addition, reports are expanding that Musk will shortly retreat from his role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk sidetracked
The latest attack by Musk on administration policy occurred on Friday, erstwhile news of cuts in NASA backing appeared. SpaceX Muska is 1 of the largest contractors of the agency.
Head of SpaceX responded to reports from the technological news service Ars Technica, according to which NASA's draft budget would reduce by about 20 percent the agency's full budget and by 50% the backing of technological activities. Musk called this message “disturbing”.
— I powerfully support science, but unfortunately I can't participate in NASA budget discussions., due to the fact that SpaceX is NASA's main contractor," he added.
POLITICO did not independently confirm the OMB budget figures. NASA spokesperson told us that the agency had read the budget for 2026 and "launched the deliberalisation process", but refused to comment further on the details of the budget or Musk's comments.
Trump promised to reduce the size of the national government, calling on Musk to lead the action to Abolishing "waste, fraud and abuse". DOGE The Muska obeyed this commandby making drastic cuts in backing and staff in national agencies.
Even if Musk is detached from talking about the agency's budget, he has a long-term relation with Trump's candidate for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, whose Shift4, a payment processing company, invested in SpaceX. Isaacman, however, tried to distance himself from him during a legislature hearing, refusing to straight confirm whether Musk was present at his first interview with the President.
Non-serious budget proposal
The White home did not immediately respond to the request for comment on this story, but Karoline Leavitt, White home press secretary, ignored Musk's earlier attacks on Navarro on Tuesday — whose billionaire called it “cretin” and “Peter Retarrdo — telling journalists: “Boys will be boys, and we will let them to proceed public sparring".
Trump besides continued to praise Musk's work with DOGE, telling him at a Thursday cabinet meeting: “Your people are fantastic. Let's hope they stay close for longer.We'd like to keep as much as we can.
The administration has besides taken steps to achieveOther investigation backing cuts, including cancellation of backing American Global Change investigation Programme, which develops the National Climate Assessment commissioned by Congress.

NASA
NASA's proposal to reduce backing is likely to meet with opposition in Congress, whose task is to finalising the budget before sending it to the president for signature.
Some legislators have already opposed reports of proposed cuts. Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic organization Senator, condemned the cuts at NASA on Friday as "short-sighted" and "dangerous" and promised to fight them.
— It's a completely frivolous budget proposal. In my function in the Subcommittee on Measures [...] I will fight fiercely against these cuts and in order to defend the crucial work done at NASA's IM Centre. Goddarda," said Van Hollen.