{"id":9415,"date":"2025-05-20T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-to-step-back-from-political-spending-i-think-ive-done-enough\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:47:19","slug":"musk-to-step-back-from-political-spending-i-think-ive-done-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/musk-to-step-back-from-political-spending-i-think-ive-done-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk to step back from political spending: \u2018I think I\u2019ve done enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Elon Musk said he plans to cut back on political spending, saying he has \u201cdone enough,\u201d a move that coincides with the billionaire entrepreneur taking a step back from President Donald Trump\u2019s Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday, the Tesla CEO said he would \u201cdo a lot less\u201d political spending \u201cin the future,\u201d adding: \u201cI think I&#8217;ve done enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk brushed aside a question about whether his move was a response to pushback he has received for his prominent role in reshaping the federal government, marked by his leadership of the agency-slashing Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I don&#8217;t currently see a reason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who poured over $290 million of his own money into the 2024 election to support Trump and Republicans, had established himself as a major political force. He also sought to influence state-wide elections, including a key Wisconsin Supreme Court race last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said he plans to cut back on political spending, saying he has \u201cdone enough,\u201d a move that coincides with the billionaire entrepreneur taking a step back from President Donald Trump\u2019s Washington. Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday, the Tesla CEO said he would \u201cdo a lot less\u201d political spending \u201cin the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9415","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\/9415","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=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}