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You don’t spend that kind of money and risk alienating your entire customer base (and future workforce!) just because of a slight.

Musk is getting something from Trump: most likely protection from some legal issue.




It was more than a slight. Biden pointedly ignored Tesla when conducting an EV summit and handing out subsidies. Then there was the FCC fiasco where the FCC snubbed Starlink.


What subsidies did Tesla not get?


> Then there was the FCC fiasco where the FCC snubbed Starlink.

You mean that time that the FCC removed Starlink from the broadband problem when they couldn't deliver the speeds that they had committed to, as defined very explicitly in the program?




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