One policy director warned that American companies could be used as a ‘prop’ against their country’s interests.
President Donald Trump looks on as crew members on the International Space Station (ISS) are displayed on a screen at the Mission Control Center at NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on August 28, 2026. Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images
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