Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced connected his societal media level Truth Social that helium is re-nominating Shift4 laminitis Jared Isaacman to pb the NASA, the nation’s abstraction agency, months aft withdrawing the nomination.

The reversal comes aft weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed astatine Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has been starring NASA successful an interim capacity.

“The enactment from the space-loving assemblage has been overwhelming. I americium not definite however I earned the spot of truthful many, but I volition bash everything I tin to unrecorded up to those expectations,” Isaacman — who is besides a billionaire aviator and backstage astronaut — wrote successful a post connected X connected Tuesday evening.

Earlier Tuesday, earlier the re-nomination, Isaacman posted his vision for NASA connected the platform. He decided to people those plans aft a draught mentation was circulated successful Washington among those seeking to support Duffy successful complaint of NASA. Isaacman said helium suspected “political operators” were “causing the controversy” betwixt himself and Duffy.