On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Reality Social that he’s re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to steer the NASA, the nation’s area company, months after withdrawing the nomination.
The reversal comes after weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed at Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has been main NASA in an interim capability.
“The assist from the space-loving neighborhood has been overwhelming. I’m not positive how I earned the belief of so many, however I’ll do all the things I can to reside as much as these expectations,” Isaacman — who can be a billionaire pilot and personal astronaut — wrote in a post on X on Tuesday night.
Earlier Tuesday, earlier than the re-nomination, Isaacman posted his vision for NASA on the platform. He determined to publish these plans after a draft model was circulated in Washington amongst these searching for to maintain Duffy in charge of NASA. Isaacman stated he suspected “political operators” had been “inflicting the controversy” between himself and Duffy.