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# As If He Needed More of Our Money, Texas Gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX Another $17.3 Million
- URL: https://www.thebarbedwire.com/texas-grant-spacex-elon-musk/
- Published: 2025-03-14T17:03:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-14T17:03:25.000Z
- Author: Angela Lim
- Tags: Money, News, Elon Musk, SpaceX

Elon Musk — cheater at [video games](https://www.thebarbedwire.com/elon-musk-admitted-to-cheating-at-video-games-gamers-are-aghast-why-did-he-do-it/), Austin-based father of (at least) 14 children, and [apparent](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/politics/elon-musk-most-powerful-bureaucrat-washington/index.html?ref=thebarbedwire.com) [supervisor](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-elon-musk-gained-so-much-power-in-the-trump-administration?ref=thebarbedwire.com) to [President Donald Trump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDv8ackOn3Q&ref=thebarbedwire.com) — is getting millions of dollars more from the state of Texas, all while he slashes government spending.

A $17.3 million state grant will go toward Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the expansion of Starlink, a subsidiary and manufacturing facility in Bastrop, [*The Texas Newsroom*](https://www.kut.org/business/2025-03-13/texas-grant-spacex-starlink-elon-musk-semiconductor-austin-bastrop?ref=thebarbedwire.com)reported. As Musk works to cut federal spending on some of our most vital government programs, [his own companies](https://abcnews.go.com/US/musk-works-slash-federal-spending-firms-received-billions/story?id=118589121&ref=thebarbedwire.com) are raking in *billions* from government contracts.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund will help SpaceX grow its research and development in Bastrop, according to a [press release](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-spacex?ref=thebarbedwire.com) from the Office of the Texas Governor on Wednesday. The governor’s office told *The Texas Newsroom* that only five grants have been given since its creation in 2023\. The fund amounts to [$698.3 million](https://gov.texas.gov/business/page/tsif?ref=thebarbedwire.com).

Musk’s SpaceX received the second most funding behind Silicon Labs in Austin, which got [$23 million](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-silicon-labs?ref=thebarbedwire.com) through the program, according to *The Texas Newsroom*. Other recipients include [IntelliEPI](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-intelliepi?ref=thebarbedwire.com) in Allen, [Dongjin Semichem Texas](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-dongjin-semichem-texas?ref=thebarbedwire.com) in Killeen, and [KoMiCo](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-komico?ref=thebarbedwire.com) in Round Rock.

SpaceX’s manufacturing site is in rural Bastrop County, around 45 minutes east of Austin, along with Musk-owned social media company X and infrastructure firm The Boring Company, according to *The Texas Newsroom*. SpaceX’s Bastrop location currently stands at [700,000 square feet](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2025000494?ref=thebarbedwire.com), but it plans to expand by *one million* square feet over the next three years, per [Abbott’s announcement](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-semiconductor-innovation-fund-grant-to-spacex?ref=thebarbedwire.com) on Wednesday. A 2024 company progress report previously noted the facility would double in size this year, according to *The Texas Newsroom.*

**Read more at**[***The Texas Newsroom***](https://www.kut.org/business/2025-03-13/texas-grant-spacex-starlink-elon-musk-semiconductor-austin-bastrop?ref=thebarbedwire.com)***.***