As Musk works to slash federal spending, his own firms have received billions in government contracts
NASA is the single largest customer of Musk’s company SpaceX.
As billionaire businessman Elon Musk has been leading an unprecedented effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last several years, received an increasing amount of funding through government contracts, according to federal spending data.
Over the last decade, Musk’s companies SpaceX and Tesla were awarded at least $18 billion in federal contracts, according to spending data — with SpaceX winning more than $17 billion worth of contracts since 2015.
