As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was reportedly canceling Department of Education contracts in the name of frugality, Musk’s rocket company was this week cementing a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract adding millions of dollars to its already massive deal with the space agency,

In the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, the president dispatched the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and an army of engineers to hack and slash the federal bureaucracy.