WASHINGTON — After the relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded into warfare Thursday, Trump suggested that he might eliminate the tech titan’s federal contracts.

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it,” Trump posted on his social media platform.

That’s not as easy as Trump implies. The Pentagon and NASA remain intensely reliant on SpaceX, Musk’s rocket launch and space-based communications company, to get to orbit and move government data across the world.

But there are options available to the president that could make Musk’s relationship with the federal government much more difficult than it has been so far in

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