Trump Admin Decides It Can’t Cancel SpaceX Contracts

The Daily Beast reports:

In the bitter fallout from the breakup of the year, President Donald Trump threatened to cancel government contracts held with Elon Musk and his SpaceX operations. Now that he’s in the “find out” stage, he’s discovering it’s not as easy as he thought.

Trump administration staffers tasked with reviewing SpaceX’s government contracts believe that terminating them would have a serious impact on both NASA and the Defense Department, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

Following the review, only a few of SpaceX’s existing contracts could face further scrutiny. None of them, however, has been canceled, as there simply isn’t any rival who can do the job more cheaply or reliably.

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