He will get it. Space X is now the only domestic source of volume orbit launch capabilities. It's a "national security issue" if it goes under. which is probably why Musk has been tying all his other failing garbage like XAI into SpaceX.

Smallest amount of scrutiny that hasn't even happened yet and isn't even guaranteed if Jeffries and Schumer get in the way

If there's one thing the response to the 2008 Crash taught the people which have most of the money is that governments can and will have the general population endure massive pain in order to save the value of the Assets of the billionaires (and thus their wealth) and people won't do jack shit about it beyond a few demonstrations where they peacefully complain and still get assaulted by some of the most violent and sadistic pigs around.

So I expect this is entirelly about a change in the expectations of how likely public money is going to be used to save AI "investors" and AI companies (all that paid with Austerity for the riff-raff) from all the reckless done by those companies and not at all about those with all the money suddenly discovering that the industry was reckless - I'm pretty sure they were well aware of that already.

I mean the tech is already out there so im sure someone would take up the slack.

The Chinese companies are running with Falcon 9 style reuse. Additionally, US company Blue Origin has successfully flown a scaled-up Falcon 9 style reuse rocket. US company Rocketlab also has a slightly scaled up Falcon 9 style reuse rocket in the works scheduled to fly for the first time in 2027.