What Musk and Trump Risk Losing in Their High-Stakes Breakup

What Musk and Trump Risk Losing in Their High-Stakes Breakup · The Wall Street Journal

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The aftermath of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s showstopping breakup raises the question: Who has the most to lose? In one of the most consequential moments, Trump threatened to pull billions of dollars in federal contracts from Musk’s companies. If that happened, it would ripple across Musk’s business empire, including SpaceX, which launches astronauts for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and satellites for the Pentagon.