{"id":2419,"date":"2024-11-13T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:23:05","slug":"elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-to-lead-department-of-government-efficiency-in-trump-administration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to lead \u2018Department of Government Efficiency\u2019 in Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&rsquo;s richest person has a new job.  Elon Musk will lead a newly created &ldquo;Department of Government Efficiency&rdquo; that will spearhead efforts to shrink the federal government, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday.  Musk will work with fellow Trump acolyte Vivek Ramaswamy to run DOGE &mdash; a winking reference to a joke cryptocurrency &ndash; and conclude their work by July 4&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/12\/congress\/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-00189209\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&rsquo;s richest person has a new job. Elon Musk will lead a newly created &ldquo;Department of Government Efficiency&rdquo; that will spearhead efforts to shrink the federal government, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Musk will work with fellow Trump acolyte Vivek Ramaswamy to run DOGE &mdash; a winking reference to a joke cryptocurrency &ndash; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}