{"id":106988,"date":"2020-05-12T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-seeks-656000-from-california-in-midst-of-musks-battle"},"modified":"2020-05-12T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:22:38","slug":"spacex-seeks-656000-from-california-in-midst-of-musks-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-seeks-656000-from-california-in-midst-of-musks-battle","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Seeks $656,000 From California in Midst of Musk\u2019s Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-seeks-656000-from-california-in-midst-of-musks-battle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Bloomberg) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is seeking almost $656,000 in new funding from California in the midst of the billionaire\u2019s battle over whether Tesla Inc. should be reopening its plant in the state.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s request for funds to train existing workers and hire new ones will go before the state\u2019s Employment Training Panel on May 15, one week after the county that\u2019s home to Tesla\u2019s factory sought to block the facility from resuming operations. The company sued the next day, and its chief executive officer threatened to move Tesla\u2019s headquarters, future programs and potentially its manufacturing out of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, 48, appears to be prevailing in the stand-off. He tweeted Monday that Tesla was restarting production in spite of Alameda County\u2019s order and said that if anyone is arrested, he wanted to be the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is seeking almost $656,000 in new funding from California in the midst of the billionaire\u2019s battle over whether Tesla Inc. should be reopening its plant in the state. SpaceX\u2019s request for funds to train existing workers and hire new ones will go before the state\u2019s Employment Training [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1878,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-employment","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}