Tech billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk called the Trump administration’s reported plans to drastically reduce NASA funding “troubling” in a Friday social media post.

“I am very much in favor of science, but unfortunately cannot participate in NASA budget discussions, due to SpaceX being a major contractor to NASA,” Musk wrote on X, the social networking platform he owns through his xAI company.

Musk is the CEO of rocket manufacturer SpaceX, so while the Department of Government Efficiency that he leads at the White House has looked for ways to........

© The Hill