US media: US wants to cut off supply to Musk's SpaceX but finds it cannot do without it. The US government cannot do without Musk's aerospace company.

On July 19 local time, according to sources familiar with the matter cited by the Wall Street Journal, US government officials have determined that they cannot cancel most of the government contracts with Elon Musk's aerospace company because these contracts are crucial to the Department of Defense and NASA. Just a few days after President Trump suggested in early June that he might cut ties with companies under entrepreneur Elon Musk, the Trump administration launched a review of the contracts between Musk's space exploration technology company and the federal government. The review aims to identify potential waste in the billions of dollars in contracts signed between SpaceX and the government.