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The US government stated that it will drop a long-term case against Elon Musk SpaceX, in which it was claimed that the company’s employment procedures were illegally discriminated against.
The move of the Ministry of Justice comes when Musk, who has repeatedly criticized the case, takes on an increasingly important role in the government of Donald Trump and monitored aggressive costs for reducing costs throughout the government, including agencies that regulate its six companies.
The doj sued first Spaceex In 2023 during Joe Biden’s presidency, the company claimed that the company published jobs in which applicants were US citizens or constant residents, although the non-state members have no legal legal staff.
The prosecutors claimed that SpaceX had actively held asyles and refugees from looking for job opportunities in the company “.
Musk denied the allegations and wrote at that time in a social media post: “SpaceX was repeatedly announced that the attitude of people who were not a constant inhabitant of the United States in the United States violate the law on international arms would what a crime would be. “
He added: “We couldn’t even hire Canadian citizens, even though Canada was part of Norad! This is another case of weapons of the Doj for political purposes. “
In an application that was submitted to a federal court in Texas on Thursday evening, the Doj asked for a stay of the case to “enable the Ministry of Justice to submit an announcement on the dismissal of the administrative procedure”. .
There was no justification for the intended dismissal, but a judge previously stated that the DOJ may not have the authority to raise the claims against SpaceX.
Musk, the Doj and SpaceX did not respond to inquiries about comments.
Muschus is the de facto leader of the so-called Efficiency of the government’s Ministry (Doge) that terminates contracts and suspends employees of several agencies, including those who examined SpaceX, Tesla and others. The White House said Muschus would “apologize” from all potential conflicts of interest.
This week, Sean Duffy, the Minister of Transport, confirmed that the emissions of Doge were present in the Federal Aviation Administration to end an agency who had proposed. Duffy announced last month of a hearing in the Senate that if confirmed confirmed, he would check the proposed fine of the FAA 633,000 US dollars for SpaceX violations against the requirements for the starting license in two 2023 missions.
This week, a Texas environmental group at its starting point near Brownsville dropped a separate case against SpaceX due to suspected water pollution.
