Trump ending Elon Musk’s federal contracts faces legal and national security problems

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President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have reignited their feud that they had supposedly worked past, with the president now threatening Musk’s companies’ government contracts.

It’s unclear how serious the president is about possibly canceling government contracts with Musk’s companies, but the legal complexities involved in a complete disentanglement would presumably be extensive due to how dependent the government is on his companies, including from a national security perspective.

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