{"id":5972,"date":"2025-02-10T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senates-top-appropriator-says-elon-musk-has-gone-too-far-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:20:35","slug":"senates-top-appropriator-says-elon-musk-has-gone-too-far-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senates-top-appropriator-says-elon-musk-has-gone-too-far-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate\u2019s top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s top appropriator thinks Elon Musk has gone too far. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, is raising alarms about the influence that billionaire Elon Musk is wielding inside the Trump administration and across federal agencies. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that the president appears to have empowered Elon Musk far beyond what I think is appropriate,&rdquo; she told reporters Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/05\/congress\/susan-collins-elon-musk-trump-spending-00202633\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s top appropriator thinks Elon Musk has gone too far. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, is raising alarms about the influence that billionaire Elon Musk is wielding inside the Trump administration and across federal agencies. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that the president appears to have empowered Elon Musk far beyond what I [&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-5972","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\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}