Elon Musk's regulatory troubles have begun to melt away in Trump's second term

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(NBC News) Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s regulatory problems have started to fade into the past.

Since the start of the second Trump administration, federal agencies that had scrutinized Musk and his business empire in recent years have begun to look a lot different. At the Department of Agriculture, for example, President Donald Trump fired the person who had been investigating the Musk company Neuralink. At other agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and Musk have tried to slash the number of employees — potentially hobbling those regulators’ ability to enforce the law against companies including Musk’s Tesla and X.

In the past few months, Trump’s Justice Department has dropped a case against Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, and his Labor Department has canceled a planned civil rights review of his automaker, Tesla. Another regulatory matter against SpaceX has entered settlement talks with the National Labor Relations Board.

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[mwmisses4289]

1. And that was the main goal of dogey.

Make all the investigations into violations of federal law at his companies go away.

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2. Quelle surprise

[CousinIT]

3. Eloon before the election: "If he (Trump) doesn't get in, I'm screwed."

Or some such comment. It certainly explains a lot.