The White House is planning to withdraw the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a White House official confirmed to POLITICO.

The sudden move comes days before the Senate was slated to vote on his nomination to lead NASA.

Isaacman, a commercial astronaut and billionaire CEO of the payment processing company Shift4, has a long-standing relationship with Elon Musk, who this week left his post as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump and chief of the Department of Government Efficiency.

It’s not yet clear what the White House’s reasoning is for the personnel change.

>It’s not yet clear what the White House’s reasoning is for the personnel change. Hmmm, gee I can’t imagine why