NASA might be Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting agency’s next target. NASA’s acting administrator, Janet Petro, confirmed Wednesday that the DOGE team will review the space agency’s payments, Bloomberg reported.
“So we are a federal agency; we are going to have DOGE come,” Petro told reporters. “They are going to look — similarly to what they’ve done at other agencies — at our payments.” She added that the agency will maintain its stringent “conflicts of interest policies” in preparation for DOGE representatives storming NASA. “Any employee or any person that’s coming in, we will check out their conflict of interest, make sure they don’t have any conflicts of interest with any of the companies that we work with,” Petro said.
The DOGE boss’ company, SpaceX, is one of NASA’s biggest contractors. Among its projects, SpaceX has also been contracted to create a vehicle to land humans on the surface of the moon — all part of NASA’s Artemis program.
Despite Musk’s $14.5 billion worth of contracts, the SpaceX CEO has often criticized NASA, calling the program “extremely inefficient” and its missions to the moon “a distraction” from his own interests in colonizing Mars. Read more at Bloomberg.
There is a little you can do to remove the appearance of impropriety when he goes into NASA.
Even if it’s only the 20 year-old tech engineering geniuses that go in, it will still appear as though it is a conflict of interest.
I think the play for this one is going to have to just be opening the books publicizing everything and settling it in the court of public opinion.
You can say the same about the DOE, DOD and now the IRS which DOGE has just begun.
Maybe now that they’re targeting NASA, the sleepers will learn that conspiracy theorists were right and the 1969 Moon Landing and all the other ‘moon landings’ were faked!