Elon Musk's Mom Rushes to His Defense: She's 'Furious' With Biden

Elon Musk's mother made her thoughts on President Joe Biden clear in a social media post Wednesday morning.

Maye Musk criticized Biden following the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) Tuesday ruling that reiterated the agency's 2022 decision to deny nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX.

"I am the mother of @elonmusk His goal is to make this world a better place. @POTUS wants to stop him," Maye Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter. "Have you any idea how furious I am? People in other countries are proud of Elon and do not understand the US President's motive. Please tell me how I should answer them."

The post has been viewed more than 2 million times as of Wednesday afternoon.

The two Republican members of the FCC dissented during the commission's vote, with FCC member Brendan Carr arguing that Biden unjustly targeted Musk when he "gave federal agencies the green light to go after" him following his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022.

"President Biden stood at a White House podium & stated that Elon Musk 'is worth being looked at.' When asked 'How?' President Biden responded 'There's a lot of ways.' There certainly are. The DOJ, FAA, FTC, NLRB, SDNY, & FWS have all taken action. The FCC now joins them," Carr posted on X.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for comment Wednesday.

SpaceX challenged the 2022 ruling, but the commission didn't stray from its decision when it ruled again on Tuesday. The FCC explained that it felt Starlink had failed to meet basic program requirements and couldn't deliver on its promised services because of financial and technical deficiencies.

The FCC directed Newsweek to a press release when reached for comment.

"The FCC is tasked with ensuring consumers everywhere have access to high-speed broadband that is reliable and affordable. The agency also has a responsibility to be a good steward of limited public funds meant to expand access to rural broadband, not fund applicants that fail to meet basic program requirements," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in the press release. "The FCC followed a careful legal, technical and policy review to determine that this applicant had failed to meet its burden."

But for Elon Musk, the ruling "doesn't make sense."

"Starlink is the only company actually solving rural broadband at scale!" Musk wrote. "They should arguably dissolve the program and return funds to taxpayers, but definitely not send it [to] those who aren't getting the job done. What actually happened is that the companies that lobbied for this massive earmark (not us) thought they would win, but instead were outperformed by Starlink, so now they're changing the rules to prevent SpaceX from competing."