It Looks an Awful Lot Like Elon Musk Is Awarding a Huge Government Contract to SpaceX

Multi-hypenate billionaire and unelected White House advisor Elon Musk has been accused of unabashedly enriching himself on the dime of American taxpayers — while slashing funding across a growing number of agencies. And that conflict of interest is about to really be put to the test. As the Washington Post reports, the Federal Aviation Administration — which was recently gutted by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency — is considering cancelling a $2.4 billion, 15-year contract that was awarded to Verizon in 2023, and hand it to Musk's SpaceX instead. The contract's goal was to upgrade the platform that allows air traffic control facilities and the FAA to communicate with each other, an extremely important piece of infrastructure that could soon get a massive upgrade — or be thrown into chaos and mismanagement. According to WaPo's sources, the Verizon contract could be soon handed to Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet constellation in low-Earth orbit, yet another glaring si ... Read full article.