Regarding Elon Musk's pessimistic attitude towards the US economy, the current US President Biden responded in a humorous tone: "lots of luck on his trip to the moon" You know, a large part of SpaceX's money to send people back to the moon comes from the Biden administration.
At a news conference held at the White House today, Biden was asked about his views on Musk's views. Musk previously issued an open letter to Tesla employees, saying that the company would cut another 10% and suspend global recruitment, which had a "very bad" feeling about the US economy.
In response, Biden said that Ford, stellantis and IBM were increasing their investment in the U.S. market. Automaker Ford is increasing investment to increase the production capacity of new electric vehicles and will add more than 6000 employees in the Midwest of the United States. Chrysler is also increasing investment; Intel will also add 20000 jobs.
Then Biden responded in a joking tone: "lots of luck on his trip to the moon". This is mainly because SpaceX's "journey to the moon" is just a key part of NASA's Artemis mission, one of which is to send the first woman and the first colored man to the moon.
Artemis is a plan formulated by the trump administration, but it is one of the few projects that survived the transfer of power. In 2021, Biden's NASA chose SpaceX to develop the company's next-generation rocket, called starship, as the lunar lander of Artemis. The agency awarded the company US $2.9 billion to turn starship into a manned spacecraft to and from the lunar surface. So far, SpaceX plans to make the first landing of Artemis in 2025 at the earliest.
So Biden joked that "his trip to the moon was lucky", just because Musk's SpaceX just took over the government's project. At the meeting, Biden said that fighting inflation is his top economic task, and Americans should be full of confidence in the economy. Biden also responded to a series of other questions.