Trump to withdraw nomination of Musk associate to lead NASA, AP source says

Trump is withdrawing information of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to pb NASA.

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is withdrawing the information of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an subordinate of Elon Musk, to pb NASA, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the determination said Saturday.

The idiosyncratic spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to remark publically connected the administration's unit decisions. The White House and NASA did not instantly respond to emailed requests for comment.

Trump announced past December during the statesmanlike modulation that helium had chosen Isaacman to beryllium the abstraction agency's adjacent administrator. Isaacman has been a adjacent collaborator with Musk ever since helium bought his archetypal chartered formation connected Musk's SpaceX successful 2021.

He is the CEO and laminitis of Shift4, a recognition paper processing company. He besides bought a bid of spaceflights from SpaceX and conducted the archetypal backstage spacewalk.

Isaacman testified astatine his Senate confirmation proceeding connected April 9 and a ballot to nonstop his information to the afloat Senate was expected soon.

SpaceX is owned by Musk, a Trump protagonist and advisor who announced this week that he is leaving the government aft respective months astatine the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE. Trump created the bureau to slash the size of authorities and enactment Musk successful charge.

Semafor was archetypal to study that the White House had decided to propulsion Isaacman's nomination.

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