Elon Musk’s business empire, including SpaceX, Starlink, and Tesla collectively stands to lose at least $48 billion in sales over roughly the next decade if President Donald Trump acts on his veiled threat to cancel the companies’ contracts with the US government, according to a WIRED review of publicly available data. Amid growing criticism from Musk on Thursday about the federal budget, Trump said that “the easiest way to save money” would be “to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.”
The federal government typically retains sweeping authority to terminate contracts “for convenience,” a catchall term that can include budget constraints or shifting priorities. But
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