Elon Musk’s mother on Wednesday accused President Biden of stopping the billionaire’s attempts to “make this world a better place” after the Federal Communications Commission refused to give Starlink nearly $900 million in subsidies.
Maye Musk, 75, complained that it was inexplicable how the FCC determined that her son’s company “had not demonstrated that it could provide the promised service.”
“I am @elonmusk’s mother. Their goal is to make this world a better place. @POTUS wants to stop him. Do you have any idea how angry I am? Maye Musk wrote in Xone of the many companies overseen by his son.
“People in other countries are proud of Elon and do not understand the motives of the president of the United States. Please tell me how I should respond to them.”
The model attached her criticism to a tweet from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who accused his agency of joining a “growing list of federal agencies involved in regulatory harassment of Elon Musk.”
Carr was one of two Republican commissioners on the five-member FCC who dissented from reaffirming its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet unit $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies.
Maye Musk accused President Biden of standing in the way of Elon Musk making the world “a better place.” Annie Wermiel/NY Post
The FCC terminated funding in August 2022 based on speed test data after Starlink agreed to provide high-speed Internet service to 642,000 rural homes and businesses in 35 states.
He suggested that the FCC, led by Democratic-appointed chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, made the decision based on the Biden administration’s anger toward Elon Musk.
Elon Musk has frequently clashed with the Biden administration since the president took office in 2020. The billionaire has referred to Biden as a “wet sock puppet” and accused the president of snubbing Tesla despite his leadership role in the development of electric vehicles, a technology the administration supports.
The Federal Communications Commission refused to give Elon Musk’s Starlink nearly $900 million in subsidies. REUTERS
The world’s richest man reiterated Carr and his mother’s claims, writing in X that the White House was “changing the rules to prevent SpaceX from competing.”
The angry tweet was not the first time Maye Musk was quick to defend her son in the face of adversity.
He vehemently accused the New York Times of writing a “hit piece” in May 2022 that suggested his son was “detached from the atrocities of apartheid” and “surrounded by anti-black propaganda” while growing up in South Africa.
Some GOP critics denounced the FCC decision as “regulatory bullying” by the Biden administration. Al Drago/UPI/Shutterstock
Later that year, while appearing in a BBC documentary, Maye Musk pleaded with her son’s critics to “stop being mean to him” as she dealt with the immediate fallout from her chaotic $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Dollars.
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