Senate Democrats ask Pentagon to review SpaceX amid Chinese investor allegations

Two Senate Democrats are requesting the Pentagon to review SpaceX amid reports that Elon Musk’s aerospace company allows significant contributions from Chinese investors. 

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Andy Kim (N.J.) raised their concerns about the company, which is a major contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD), in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday. The legislators cited recently unsealed court records and a ProPublica investigation from March. 

“These ties could pose a national security threat, potentially jeopardizing key military, intelligence, and civilian infrastructure, and are at odds with the administration’s policies on foreign investment from countries of concern in strategic industries,” the senators wrote. 

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