SURPRISE>>>>Elon Musk SpaceX (and other commercial space companies, but particularly SpaceX) are the big winners in Trump's new federal budget plan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05... - ThreadSky

ericlipton.nytimes.com • 2 days ago

SURPRISE>>>>Elon Musk SpaceX (and other commercial space companies, but particularly SpaceX) are the big winners in Trump's new federal budget plan.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/02/us/trump-budget-2026/ac7f144f-a82f-5888-91bb-00473cdd1991?smid=url-share

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equineducklings.bsky.social•2 days ago

Narrator: no one is surprised

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•2 days ago

And your paper helped elect him. Twice.

holympus.bsky.social•2 days ago

this is called illegal corruption in case you forgot those words/wanna add them to your article

jaykellett.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also "no bid" seems likely.

I remember when those words were taboo.

jjurek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Consider this my shocked face.

gustavo64.bsky.social•2 days ago

Goddamn, that page has a wealth of depressing info. Saving $170 million to make sure all the bullshit supplements that RFK Jr. loves so much and right wing grifters love to hawk aren't killing people. Quite a savings!

gustavo64.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's enough to pay for Trump's birthday armed forces parade AND two months of his golf trips!

bmacknight.bsky.social•2 days ago

That is illegal and corrupt and should be reported that way.

captainwest.bsky.social•2 days ago

Any contracts for construction of virtually anything paid for by the tax payers, must go out for bids. That is, any LEGAL contracts. Musk may not automatically get the contract if it's properly let, but with the First Felon, nothing is legal, except maybe his actual name. And then, who knows?

danmitchell.bsky.social•2 days ago

I assume the “SURPRISE” is meant as sarcasm, but I can’t be 100 percent certain given the horrifying history of you and your publication.

Sorry, but that’s just the fact of it.

msswank.bsky.social•2 days ago

The shadow POTUS is getting an immediate ROI for his heavy hand in election interference. 🤬 This entire thing is a sham.

suddenlygarmo.bsky.social•2 days ago

trump and musk are both lunatics and you need to start using the word "corruption," otherwise you are legitimizing their behavior

misterrora.bsky.social•2 days ago

Golden dome is a horribly stupid plan for America.

It works for Israel because the country because the inhabited parts are tightly contained in a narrow strip. Protecting a huge wide open country would be ineffective and horribly expensive.

webrant.bsky.social•2 days ago

A scam for more taxpayer money to a fascist oligarch who funded Trump's campaign and then gutted the federal government is called the most blatant corruption we have ever seen.

Except by the always enabling New York Times.

https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lo73pzg2wc2z

bonairevolt.bsky.social•2 days ago

space/X doesn't have a lot of experience with fast-launch and solid propulsion systems, nor the in-flight radar needed for intercept. Good luck to them and their nepotism-granted grift.

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Go figure ☝️

I bought the Federal for Govt for a mere 273 mil for myself and my bestie Putin ... Elon Musk 🙄🇺🇸

jtyler5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Imagine that.

wayofthelotus.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is my shocked face.

gregsanderson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surprise indeed 😂

tubbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

What's with this framing? Call it out as Elon directly being a thief, don't call him a "winner."

realworldrj.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s not big a surprise for those of us that have been warning about the grifting, waste, fraud, abuse, and blatant corruption in this admin for a while now

canopyguy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surprised?

thom6502.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wij van wceend adviseren ..........

marcairhart.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surprise! We're going to replace the federal government with a suite of Elon Musk companies.

29psw1.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's important to keep in mind that this is the *president's* budget. Will congress pass it? Unlikely. Will he try to do it anyway? Probably. Will he get away with it? That's the question...

kaypeapod.bsky.social•2 days ago

Somehow there must be an opening here for a SpaceX takedown @teslatakedown.com

peternummerelf.bsky.social•2 days ago

SHIT

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kleptocracy

stange.shakespeareinthe.pub•2 days ago

You can use the word "corruption." It's right there.

craftyme25.bsky.social•2 days ago

As they cut Meals on Wheels. 😢

mammajello.bsky.social•2 days ago

kkarrla.bsky.social•2 days ago

If the regime is ever dislodged from power, the next administration will have to destroy his companies

jimmy518.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh wow he's "winning big"?? No other phrase comes to mind? Possibly the largest and most open corruption in US history? Kinda has a ring to it, along with being the objective truth. Weird that a newspaper writer wouldn't put such a straight forward story in historic context. Why is that Eric?

matts48blues.bsky.social•2 days ago

This should TOTALLY help Teslas image! That meme stock is literally Enron

celestialclockwork.bsky.social•2 days ago

Corruption in plain sight…

patchygroundfog.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hate these fuckers. 😡

xnfra.bsky.social•4 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/xnfra.bsky.social/post/3loeoqvb7zc2h

randumdude.bsky.social•2 days ago

People are saying its the griftiest government ever!

bobcorlett.bsky.social•2 days ago

Broligarch welfare. Corruption. That's all there is to their "policy."

misshavisham.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

ericlipton.nytimes.com•2 days ago

The Trump budget plan document is filled with more than $150 billion in cuts across the landscape of federal agencies. But the Pentagon is slated to get a $113 billion boost in spending and two key Mr. Trump wants to push that giant load of new money are programs that SpaceX is going to profit from.

bonairevolt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dude - it's a coup. Just deal with it... sigh.

Musk and Trump will destroy our older people and downtrodden while pumping up their own pockets.

ktkelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

The #trumpcrimefamily kickbacks are going to be phenomenal.

ericlipton.nytimes.com•2 days ago

The Times has previously detailed how SpaceX is positioned to profit in the Trump era. This new Trump plan provides more evidence that the flow of federal dollars to SpaceX (Musk's most important business venture at the moment) is slated to balloon even more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html

clerlightmind.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Hack him; steal.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•2 days ago

The NYT keeps running puff pieces about Musk and his "Dark Enlightenment" crowd. Why? Pick a lane. Stop running opinion A one day and B the next.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•2 days ago

Where B is the precise opposite of A.

bindlestiff.bsky.social•2 days ago

None of Musks ‘s businesses could survive without massive inflows of federal funding. Tesla, for example, only remains profitable because they’ve sold billions in federal regulatory credits (nearly $600M in Q1).

DOGE has never been about saving money; it’s always been about redirecting it.

ericlipton.nytimes.com•2 days ago

The NYT is tracking what is included in the new budget plan--the cuts and the jumps in proposed spending. You can read about it here. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/02/us/trump-budget-2026

dianenyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

I want to see the IMPACT of these cuts. Here they take a stab at that: “The proposed budget would abolish a C.D.C. center that studies how to prevent injuries, suicides and homicides, including those caused by firearms.”

Its up to us to drive home the real world, personal impacts.

stopburningthings.bsky.social•2 days ago

About 20% of the u.s. population gets health insurance through Medicaid. Medicaid is set to be severely cut ...

dianenyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

In nearly half of births each year, the mother receives her healthcare thru Medicaid.

hellomuself78.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Why don’t you investigate the election?

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

dannydecan.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s preparing to annex

chadfarrenburg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this one of the legal things Trump is doing?

foriegnanddomestic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Elizabeth Warren still fighting for our Democracy. https://youtu.be/HWSl_B_RtBY?si=4eDkB8NQmqqTLoCn

oldyoungfart.bsky.social•2 days ago

Waste of time, but she tried.

If the regime is toppled rather than destroying itself her stuff will definitely make it into schoolbooks, though! 👍

chasmaine.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why did Elon spend $300 million to help Trump win the presidency?

Rest assured — it wasn’t about principle. It wasn’t about government efficiency. It was never about making America a better country.

Rather — it was about Musk’s wallet.

It always was.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/elon-musk-spacex-trump-budget.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.NgH5.MOKHlh3xf_1t&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

nrothont.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for the gift article!

taormint.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hoping the NYT does a deep dive into Musk and the corruption of building xAI. I’m sure Trump’s EPA will look away while people suffer.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/elon-musks-xai-in-memphis-35-gas-turbines-no-air-pollution-permits/

trychick.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is Felon Muscowbitch getting a government contract that will pay him billions and result in NOTHING.

kevinpenner.bsky.social•2 days ago

grifters grift

timpranillo.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, corruption.

And here you are whitewashing it. Perfect NY Times guy.

citizen12345.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’re claiming society will collapse if we don’t decrease interest payments and slashing critical services. But we’ve got money for Elon’s expensive space hobby.

stopburningthings.bsky.social•2 days ago

they have screwed up the financial trust in u.s. govt debts (DOGE and Trump), so because of that interest payments will go up.

citizen12345.bsky.social•2 days ago

So our debt is probably increasing with this budget and the interest rate is higher and we’re losing a ton of services and a ton of fed workers will be on unemployment.

paulaptb.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Others," meaning Bezos' "Blue Origins?" Of course.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•2 days ago

rest assured that this is not news to musk at all. not any more than your own articles are news to you.

soog.bsky.social•2 days ago

😡

bigbux.bsky.social•2 days ago

So… corruption. right?

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