{"id":201394,"date":"2025-10-09T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201394\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:49:08","slug":"trump-billionaire-isaacman-said-to-meet-about-top-nasa-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201394\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Billionaire Isaacman Said to Meet About Top NASA Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Jared Isaacman and President Donald Trump have met in recent weeks and discussed reviving the fintech billionaire\u2019s nomination to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/29638Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">NASA<\/a>, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A decision to reconsider the Elon Musk ally would mark a major reversal for Trump after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0218390Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">White House<\/a> revoked the job offer in May citing Isaacman\u2019s ties to Democratic politicians. That left NASA without a long-term leader as the space agency grapples with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-02\/trump-administration-proposes-cutting-6-billion-from-nasa-s-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">funding <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-26\/nasa-says-thousands-of-employees-set-to-resign-from-space-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">job cuts<\/a> and races to bring astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-09-10\/is-spacex-s-starship-the-weak-link-in-us-china-lunar-race\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">back to the moon<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Isaacman and President Donald Trump have met in recent weeks and discussed reviving the fintech billionaire\u2019s nomination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,99,53532,5175,20097,53114,17567,18461,125767,68808,128,125768,285,5689,19542],"class_list":["post-201394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-c-suite","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-fintech","tag-industries","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-shift4-payments-inc-class-a","tag-space","tag-transportation","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}