U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit astatine the Kennedy Center connected August 13, 2025 successful Washington, DC. Trump announced the archetypal nominees of the yearly Kennedy Center Honors since taking power of the center’s committee earlier this year.
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U.S. President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Wednesday to streamline national regularisation governing commercialized rocket launches, a determination that would payment Elon Musk's SpaceX and different backstage abstraction ventures.
Trump's order, among different things, directs the U.S. proscription caput to destruct oregon expedite biology reviews for motorboat licenses administered by the Federal Aviation Administration, the White House said successful a statement.
The declaration besides calls connected the caput to bash distant with "outdated, redundant oregon overly restrictive rules for motorboat and reentry vehicles."
"Inefficient permitting processes discourage concern and innovation, limiting the quality of U.S. companies to pb successful planetary abstraction markets," the enforcement bid states.
It added: "Overly analyzable biology and different licensing and permitting regulations dilatory down commercialized abstraction launches and infrastructure development, and payment entrenched incumbents (who tin spend to carnivore the disbursal of regulatory compliance) implicit caller marketplace entrants (who cannot)."
Although Musk and Trump person remained embroiled successful a high-profile feud for months, the billionaire entrepreneur's SpaceX rocket and outer task perchance stands to beryllium the azygous biggest contiguous beneficiary of Trump's bid connected Wednesday.
SpaceX, though not mentioned by sanction successful the enforcement order, easy leads each different U.S. abstraction manufacture entities, including NASA, successful the sheer fig of launches it routinely conducts.
Musk has complained that biology interaction reviews and post-flight mishap investigations person repeatedly slowed down investigating of SpaceX's ambitious caller Starship rocket vehicle, nether improvement astatine the company's South Texas motorboat facility.
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