I’m not saying any reasonable government would be buying services from Musk at this point but so far he is doing fine for probably more than one perverse reason.
Again, extrapolate mid/long-term with “new” Republicans (don’t care about small gov at this point) potentially winning next election(s) and him providing an “AI” enabled personal interface for every US citizen… what could go wrong?
It’s a natural sell / setup for “we must win against evil empire of China, be as efficient, yaddayadda”.