Space X, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic *all* get billions of dollars in grants from agencies like Space Force and NASA.

From Mother Jones:

This past April, a subsidiary of Branson’s Virgin Galactic announced it had won a $35 million contract from the Space Force — the newly created space wing of the US military — to transport satellites into low-earth orbit. For their part, both Bezos and Musk seem to be aiming at a wholesale replacement of NASA. Musk’s SpaceX has contracts to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, and Bezos’ Blue Origin has won its own contracts to develop, among other things, a nuclear-powered spaceship.

Around the same time Branson won his satellite contract, NASA awarded Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract from NASA to send a man to the moon, an outsourcing of what was once the US government’s most successful technical accomplishment. Musk beat out Bezos for the contract and a handful of defense contractors, who for decades have been the primary recipient of government aerospace contracts.