{"id":6663,"date":"2025-02-27T04:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-meets-with-johnson-as-doge-tension-heats-up-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T04:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:23:48","slug":"musk-meets-with-johnson-as-doge-tension-heats-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-meets-with-johnson-as-doge-tension-heats-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk meets with Johnson as DOGE tension heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson met with Elon Musk late Tuesday night at the White House, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting. It comes as the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s slash-and-burn cuts across the federal government are fueling growing tensions with Republican members of Congress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/26\/congress\/musk-johnson-meeting-doge-00206190\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson met with Elon Musk late Tuesday night at the White House, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting. It comes as the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s slash-and-burn cuts across the federal government are fueling growing tensions with Republican members of Congress&#8230;Read More<\/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-6663","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\/6663","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=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}