Musk Unlikely to Pay Price at Democratic FCC for Trump Support

The FCC under Jessica Rosenworcel is unlikely to be “openly punitive” against any company just because Musk controls it, said Jonathan Cannon, R Street Institute policy counsel-technology and innovation. “It would be unwise for an administration to go after a business purely because of the politics of the CEO,” he said. “That seems like a destructive precedent that would not serve them well” and “I haven’t seen evidence that they would do that.”

Musk “runs the largest commercial space program and has redefined what space travel is,” Cannon said. SpaceX will be an important part of future space programs, he predicted, and noted that the FCC excluded Starlink from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program, finding that its speeds were inadequate (see 2312140048). House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., recently said he is investigating that decision (see 2410080062).