{"id":5914,"date":"2025-02-08T11:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grow-up-vance-khanna-spar-over-rehiring-doge-staffer\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:20:46","slug":"grow-up-vance-khanna-spar-over-rehiring-doge-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grow-up-vance-khanna-spar-over-rehiring-doge-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grow up&#8217;: Vance, Khanna spar over rehiring DOGE staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) sparred on social media platform X over the proposed rehiring of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts came to light.&nbsp; Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE aide, had &ldquo;read-only&rdquo; access to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5133970-vance-khanna-doge-staffer-rehiring\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) sparred on social media platform X over the proposed rehiring of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts came to light.&nbsp; Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE aide, had &ldquo;read-only&rdquo; access to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","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=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}