"I think it might not have been intentional, might have been ham-handed [like] some of the requests that were made by [the Department of Government Efficiency], but my position was, we are not going to fire air traffic controllers, Duffy told The New York Posts Miranda Devine earlier this year. Safety-critical positions are not going to be fired within the Department of Transportation. We can do things more efficiently but we are not going to fire air controllers."
"We are in a race against China so we need the best companies to operate at a speed that gets us to the Moon FIRST. SpaceX has the contract to build the HLS which will get U.S. astronauts there on Artemis III. But, competition and innovation are the keys to our dominance in pic.twitter.com/dAo0so5qqZ NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy (@SecDuffyNASA) October 20, 2025"
Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Twitter, accusing him of trying to kill NASA and using a derogatory nickname. Musk and Duffy had previously clashed over Musk's Department of Government Efficiency efforts, with Duffy insisting the Department of Transportation would not fire safety-critical air traffic controllers. Hostilities flared again after Duffy told CNBC that SpaceX was falling behind the administration's lunar timeline and that other companies would be allowed to compete for the Artemis lunar lander contract. Duffy emphasized urgency to beat China to the Moon and amplified his comments on Twitter.
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