Donald Trump, NASA and Elon Musk
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President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
A CBS interview with Elon Musk went off the rails after he was asked about President Donald Trump’s crusade against Harvard. “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal,” Pogue said on CBS’s Sunday Morning. “I mean, you were one of those kids, right?”
While Musk first refused to talk politics with "CBS Sunday Morning," it didn't take him long to start airing his grievances.
US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was withdrawing his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk, to lead space agency NASA.
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Isaacman, a commercial astronaut and billionaire, is a longtime friend and business associate of Elon Musk, and Musk had lobbied President Donald Trump directly for his friend’s nomination to the role of NASA chief. Former Deputy Director of the Kennedy Space Center Janet Petro is currently acting as NASA administrator.
In response, Isaacman thanked Trump and the Senate, writing on X that he past six months were “enlightening and, honestly, a bit thrilling.”
WASHINGTON—President Trump said farewell to Elon Musk on Friday, closing out one of the most turbulent periods in modern government, with an Oval Office news conference in which both men said their relationship would continue.
Elon Musk sat down for a taped interview with CBS Sunday Morning host David Pogue, a wide-ranging discussion of Trump-related topics, including the president's "big, beautiful" spending bill and Musk's apparently slowed-down Department of Government Efficiency.
President Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters, and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.