It’s amazing how regularly people in tech companies think “big government” is unnecessary until it directly affects their interests - and then they want that part to be well-funded and efficient.

That said, even NASA’s Inspector General is attacking the US government’s role in space development as wasteful and inefficient. He put his name to a damning recent report on the SLS space launch system that said it should be scrapped by NASA in favor of commercial alternatives.

I’m not sure I can accept SpaceX’s claims at face value. They appear to be blaming the FAA for their own failures, yet they are owned by a person notorious for consistently over-promising and under-delivering.