Walsh visited Tesla CEO Elon Musk Sunday at the company's factory in Austin, Texas, as the Biden administration looks to reverse inflation caused largely by a rise in energy prices and auto industry supply problems.
Musk relocated Tesla's corporate headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, and Walsh's tour of the facility comes ahead of its April grand opening, according to Axios. The trip, though not open to the press, represents a potential thawing in the relationship between the world's largest electric vehicle producer and the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden has kept Tesla and Musk at arm's length, despite the president's very public efforts to electrify the nation's federal, commercial, and personal fleets, and has only publicly mentioned the company once in his first 14 months in office. The president's comments came after Musk publicly attacked Biden for being"unable" to mention Tesla by name while touting his administration's green energy initiatives, but White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the comments were not meant to convey a shift in administration policy.
While Musk does hold billions in federal contracts through SpaceX, leaked emails between an executive at United Launch Alliance, a core SpaceX competitor, and a top aerospace industry lobbyist in 2021 shed light on a coordinated effort to sour the Biden administration's relationship with Musk.
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