A growing number of U.S. lawmakers are raising questions about the potential for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to interfere or take over a $2.4 billion Federal Aviation Administration telecommunications contract with rival Verizon .

The FAA will now bring air traffic at Reagan Washington National Airport to a complete stop whenever the president flies nearby on Marine One.

Reps. Jim Clyburn (SC-06) and Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued a joint statement Saturday accusing Elon Musk of holding a "glaring conflict of interest" as the Feder

Without citing evidence, Musk said the air traffic control communication system managed by L3Harris is “breaking down” and "the situation is extremely dire."

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering canceling its $2.4 billion air traffic control communications system contract with Verizon and

DOGE has not canceled a single one of Musk’s billions of dollars in government contracts. Instead, Musk is poised to get another juicy one via the FAA.

The $2.4 billion contract was awarded to Verizon in 2023, according to the Post, and upgrades the systems that allow FAA offices to communicate with air traffic control facilities. But Musk has been critical of Verizon in recent days,

Problems at the FAA have taken on new urgency in the wake of last month’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport, which killed 67 people. It followed a string of close ...

Elon Musk said Thursday that Verizon’s efforts to provide a critically needed upgrade to the FAA’s air traffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that Starlink, a unit of his SpaceX satellite and rocket company,

Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk’s company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.