{"id":4693,"date":"2025-01-09T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-says-doge-might-not-be-able-to-cut-2-trillion-actually-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:22:04","slug":"musk-says-doge-might-not-be-able-to-cut-2-trillion-actually-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-says-doge-might-not-be-able-to-cut-2-trillion-actually-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk says DOGE might not be able to cut $2 trillion, actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally Elon Musk promised last year that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency would cut &ldquo;at least $2 trillion&rdquo; from the federal budget. Wednesday, he said the real figure may end up being half that. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll try for $2 trillion, I think that&rsquo;s like the best case outcome,&rdquo; Musk told Stagwell CEO Mark Penn&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/elon-musk-doge-budget-cuts-00197274\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally Elon Musk promised last year that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency would cut &ldquo;at least $2 trillion&rdquo; from the federal budget. Wednesday, he said the real figure may end up being half that. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll try for $2 trillion, I think that&rsquo;s like the best case outcome,&rdquo; Musk told Stagwell CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}