by Skip DeKades
February 27, 2029 — The U.S. Department of Treasury announced this morning that the federal government will acquire national security provider Halliburton and space exploration company NASA, Inc., both of which are on the verge of bankruptcy.
The move returns the country’s national security operations and space exploration to the public sector for the first time in nearly eight years. The government will pay a total of $2 quadrillion to seize control of the two companies and recreate the departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Treasury Secretary Suze Orman said the steps were necessary because both companies were near collapse at a time when their products and services are needed to get people off the planet before an asteroid strikes Earth later this year. NASA and its subcontractors are building spacecraft to ship Americans off the planet, while Halliburton is setting up refugee camps on the Moon and terra-forming Mars.
Halliburton, which bought the national security operations from the U.S. government in 2021, and NASA, which went private in 2022, have been beset by escalating costs, declining revenues and mountainous debt. Orman said the two companies’ executive management and board of directors will be fired, adding that they have all been guilty of gross fiscal mismanagement.
“We decided it’s better to return these operations to the public sector,” she said. “We don’t have to worry about running up big debts.”
President Angelina Jolie next week is expected to name Sen. Maureen Corr (R-Calif.) as Secretary of Defense and Wyoming Gov. Marshall Lawe (D) as Secretary of Homeland Security.
