{"id":7516,"date":"2025-03-20T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-want-musk-to-shut-up-about-social-security\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:20:49","slug":"republicans-want-musk-to-shut-up-about-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-want-musk-to-shut-up-about-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone. Musk&rsquo;s statement that Social Security is a &ldquo;Ponzi scheme&rdquo; and plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration&rsquo;s workforce is giving GOP lawmakers heartburn&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5204263-senate-republicans-elon-musk-social-security\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone. Musk&rsquo;s statement that Social Security is a &ldquo;Ponzi scheme&rdquo; and plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration&rsquo;s workforce is giving GOP lawmakers heartburn&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7516","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\/7516","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=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}