{"id":7617,"date":"2025-03-24T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/social-security-administrator-backs-out-of-shutting-down-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:22:41","slug":"social-security-administrator-backs-out-of-shutting-down-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/social-security-administrator-backs-out-of-shutting-down-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security administrator backs out of \u2018shutting down\u2019 agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) said Friday that he wouldn&rsquo;t be &ldquo;shutting down the agency&rdquo; after a federal judge backed up a temporary restraining order issued against Elon Musk&rsquo;s government cost-cutting panel. SSA chief Leland Dudek, an appointee of President Trump responsible for implementing cuts from Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5210533-social-security-agency-restrictions\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) said Friday that he wouldn&rsquo;t be &ldquo;shutting down the agency&rdquo; after a federal judge backed up a temporary restraining order issued against Elon Musk&rsquo;s government cost-cutting panel. SSA chief Leland Dudek, an appointee of President Trump responsible for implementing cuts from Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","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\/7617","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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}