Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, is questioning Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to the NASA headquarters.

Musk owns a space exploration company, SpaceX, which contracts billions of dollars with NASA, an agency he has been critical of in the past. Meng sent a letter to NASA’s acting Administrator Janet Petro, urging her to revoke Musk and DOGE’s access to NASA’s headquarters. 

Meng wrote that since President Donald Trump assumed the presidency, Musk has “enjoyed nearly unfettered access to data across several government agencies and offices.”

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“Providing such access to Mr. Musk at NASA would create a blatant, multi-billion-dollar conflict of interest—exactly the kind of coziness between government and industry and corruption that my constituents fear happens in Washington,” Meng wrote.

“Moreover, providing special access to the owner of SpaceX would likely open NASA to expensive litigation, protests from others participating in competitive grants, or other actions that would force NASA to take finances and resources away from key missions and research,” she continued.

Meng additionally said she recently visited the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to voice her concerns about Musk’s access. Petro recently sent a memo to the agency asking its employees to embrace “some inspiration from the spirit of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency,” according to a CNN report.

As CEO of SpaceX, Musk holds billions of dollars’ worth of contracts with the government. SpaceX has about $22 billion in government contracts, with the vast majority of that being about $15 billion with NASA.

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Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) additionally wrote a letter to Petro saying the risk Musk and DOGE pose to NASA is “unique” because of the “vast conflicts-of-interest.”

“Our immediate concern is to ensure that the integrity of NASA’s secure system, including any classified data managed or accessed by the agency, is being preserved,” the letter reads. “Furthermore, NASA possesses highly sensitive proprietary data related to the capabilities and contractual obligations of its contractors — some of whom are or could become direct competitors to SpaceX.”