Musk Fumes at Duffy Over Loss of SpaceX Govt Contract

Tech billionaire Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Tuesday, accusing the Trump administration official of “trying to kill NASA” in a vitriolic string of posts on his social media platform, X.

Musk, who served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency until late May, had previously clashed with Duffy over efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy.

“I think it might not have been intentional, might have been ham-handed [like] some of the requests that were made by [DOGE], but my position was, we are not going to fire air traffic controllers,” Duffy told the New York Post earlier this year.

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