{"id":6618,"date":"2025-02-26T04:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-push-to-downsize-federal-workforce-runs-into-cabinet-roadblock\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T04:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:20:49","slug":"musk-push-to-downsize-federal-workforce-runs-into-cabinet-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-push-to-downsize-federal-workforce-runs-into-cabinet-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk push to downsize federal workforce runs into Cabinet roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s push to reduce the federal workforce is running into headwinds as Senate-confirmed Cabinet and agency officials block his immediate efforts to carry out the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s (DOGE) plans. Musk&rsquo;s weekend directive for government employees to respond with bullet points describing what they accomplished in the past week under the threat of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5163937-elon-musk-federal-workforce\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s push to reduce the federal workforce is running into headwinds as Senate-confirmed Cabinet and agency officials block his immediate efforts to carry out the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s (DOGE) plans. Musk&rsquo;s weekend directive for government employees to respond with bullet points describing what they accomplished in the past week under the threat of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","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\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}