Donald Trump’s commerce secretary touted Elon Musk’s Starlink to federal officials in charge of a $42bn rural broadband programme, raising new questions about the billionaire White House adviser’s conflicts of interest.
In a private meeting in the Herbert Hoover building near the White House this month, Howard Lutnick told civil servants at the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (Bead) programme to increase the project’s use of satellite connectivity — over fibre-optic cable — and singled out Musk’s provider, Starlink.
“He mentioned Musk by name, he asked if we had been talking with Elon,” Evan Feinman, who until Friday was the director of Bead, told the Financial Times in an interview.
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