First of all none of this is legal- it’s all money that is appropriated.

Secondly, this is a see-through attempt to further extend an already short staffed federal government in order to justify selling it off in pieces to the millionaire and billionaire class.

One final question, is Elon Musk doing this all purely out of the goodness of his heart? He has nothing to gain from what he is doing?

Basic game theory suggests that maybe he is acting more selfishly than we are being told.