Elon Musks role in the Center of the US government became his potential to help the richest man in the world and harms his competitor.
The six companies from Musk already benefit from around $ 20 billion to government contracts – which the billionaire insisted that all merits were obtained this week and granted added value for money – and several subsidies.
But Musk, who donated more than $ 250 million to Donald Trump’s return campaign from Donald Trump, now leads a cost reduction drive via government departments, including those that examined or punish his companies Tesla and SpaceX.
Here is how his companies perform in the new administration:
X
Musk has announced when he is known as X for $ 44 billion.
The fully frontal attack on the German Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge), which Musk leads, has partly developed to X, where the billionaire, which he sees as examples of outrageous federal waste, cited. On the website, decisive movements of the Trump administration are communicated, which also scolds Musk against its critics.
The finances of X – which were once so bad that Muschus registered the idea of registering for bankruptcy have improved. In the past week, billions of dollars of debts in connection with his purchase were almost sold: a great relief for banks that financed the takeover and had written down the loans.
The EU is also examined by the EU to spread alleged disinformation. Although there are no signs that Brussels picked up, the White House has signaled that NATO’s support could depend on Europe, which underpins its regulation of the US technology.
Tesla
The manufacturer of electric vehicles and batteries is the core of the Musk empire and the source of $ 150 billion of its personal assets. Trump’s aggressive reversal of the government’s commitment to less carbon -intensive transport could be violated.
Tesla has received over the years more than $ 2.8 billion In state and state subsidies and last year, 2.8 billion-two two-two fifths of his net profit of $ 7.1 billion of USD-from Sales of regulatory credits to contaminated competitors, which otherwise reduce emissions.
Trump already has it cancelled The goal of former President Joe Biden that half of the US vehicles sold should be battery operated by 2030. Trump has also stated that a federal tax credit could also be increased in the value of 7,500 US dollars and the emissions credits system.
Muschus has dismissed The potential effects on Tesla, which states that the electrification of the transport is inevitable and that the removal of subsidies would damage less profitable EV rival.
But Trump’s hostility to EVS comes at a bad time. While the model Y still remains the best-selling car of any kind, sales are softer and Tesla reported the first annual decline in EV sales for more than a decade in 2024. Particularly pronounced In Europe that blamed the analysts on Musk sponsorship of right -wing extremist politics in Germany and Great Britain.
Another problem could Trump’s trade war with China, Tesla’s second largest market and location of his largest “Gigafactory” and in which Musk requested that his self-driving car software are trained.
“The strategic direction is driven by Elons ego, not by Tesla,” said Ross Gerber, a long -time shareholder and critic of Musk. “The move to politics is a problem because it does not sell cars.”
Spaceex
Musks 350 billion USD start-up has become Actually The operator of the US space program that won state contracts worth billions of dollars and builds up the largest reusable rocket in history in order to fulfill the ambition of its owner to colonize Mars.
Trump has a special admiration for the company, which Musk describes in his victory speech as a “super genius” and praised SpaceX ‘historical technical performance: to catch the huge rocket -rocket -booster with its “Mechazilla” robotic arms.
The selection of the president for the NASA administrator, the Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, has close relationships with Musk and has led two SpaceX missions. With Trump and Isaacmans Sponsoring, SpaceX should only expand the advantage over rivals such as Boeing and Jeff Bezos’ blue origin.
Musks role at Doge Cutting government bread could also help him in battle with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Labor Relations Board and the US fish and wildlife service – which all accused him of having to hinder innovations and delay the starts with regulations.
SpaceX’s workload could continue to increase if Trump has successfully commissioned the most ambitious rocket sign in US history, which requires the use of “spatial interceptors”. At the moment it is the only space company with the ability to start hundreds of new satellites at short notice.
Starlink
Starlink, a network of more than 7,000 satellites with a low orbit, sits within SpaceX to disturb the global broadband system on a fiber -fiber -based basis.
Originally aimed at remote rural areas, airlines and cruise ships, their ambitions have increased in the course of technology. Its use has become geopolitically controversial during the Russian war against Ukraine and in Taiwan.
Among Biden, Starlink of US authorities such as the Federal Communications Commission suspended a setback, which revealed an application for the dramatic increase in the number of satellites to almost 30,000 and in 2022 an almost $ 900 million deal for the provision of rural broadband.
But Musk’s fluctuations in the Trump government have had a negative impact on Starlink. This month, the leader of the most populous province of Canada, Ontario, his government would “torture” a contract with the broadband provider in retaliation for Trump’s threat of making Canada with tariffs.
So Starlink what temporarily prohibited In Brazil after being involved in a spit on misinformation and censorship on X after Muschus had intervened to support the right causes in the country.
Xai
The Trump administration has undertaken to consolidate the dominance of the United States in artificial intelligence and to immediately lift a bidding order in which security standards for the emerging industry were set.
This friendly attitude together with the appointment of tight musk allied David Sacks as Trump’s Ai Tsar-Come to the two-year start-up Xai of the billionaire entrepreneur.
However, it also enables some of its most violent enemies, including Openai.
Musk, who co-founded the Chatgpt creator with Sam Altman, has registered the company since then and has filed several lawsuits. On Monday, Musk made a bold takeover offer to prevent Openai from converting it into a profit -oriented company.
Altman said it was “deeply un -American to use political power to hurt her competitors,” and Musk promised that he wouldn’t do it, but his closeness to Trump shaked Openaai.
Musk has also campaigned for one of the early signature AI guidelines of the White House and has doubts about the financing behind a Trump-supported $ 500-billion infrastructure project with Openai and Japans Softbank.
Neuralink/Bowing Company
Neuralink, Musk’s brain implant company, was last year to implant an electrode into a human brain for the first time, so that the recipient could only operate phones and computers.
It conducts closely regulated clinical studies in the USA, but there is no indication that the Food and Drug Administration plans to loosen its supervision of Neuralink’s activities. The company also recruits patients in Canada and could suffer if a trade war escalated with the USA.
The boring company that specializes in the construction of underground tunnels to reduce traffic jams has projects in Las Vegas and California. But other commissions failed after the local opposition. Since Trump’s victory, his managing director Steve Davis has been divided into Doge, where he monitored Musk’s attack on government spending.
Musk did not answer a request for comments. The White House said that he would “apologize” from Doge work in connection with his business contracts.
