The Trump administration has halted some regulatory matters involving Musk’s companies and fired people from agencies investigating Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink.
Since the start of the second Trump administration, federal agencies that had scrutinized Musk and his business empire in recent years have begun to look a lot different.
At the Department of Agriculture, for example, Donald Trump fired the person who had been investigating the Musk company Neuralink. At other agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and Musk have tried to slash the number of employees — potentially hobbling those regulators’ ability to enforce the law against companies including Musk’s Tesla and X.
In the past few months, Trump’s Justice Department has dropped a case against Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, and his Labor Department has canceled a planned civil rights review of his automaker, Tesla. Another regulatory matter against SpaceX has entered settlement talks with the National Labor Relations Board.
I am curious just how far the billionaires will be able to push until the American people snap. So far, seems like they’ve got plenty of appetite for yet more of their shit. I guess it’s probably true that nothing will happen until people start missing meals.
I wonder that myself. I’m I’m disappointed in the answer so far because I suspect that people have been utterly programmed to follow irrelevant trifles over substance.