{"id":9505,"date":"2025-05-21T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:18:06","slug":"elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk visits Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Elon Musk is on Capitol Hill \u2014 but the purpose of his visit was not wasn\u2019t immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>The ally of President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative was seen entering a meeting room on the Senate side of the Capitol complex. <\/p>\n<p>Musk oversaw a rapid, unprecedented dismantling of the federal bureaucracy in the first months of the new administration but has recently begun to step back in his official White House activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is on Capitol Hill \u2014 but the purpose of his visit was not wasn\u2019t immediately clear. The ally of President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative was seen entering a meeting room on the Senate side of the Capitol complex. Musk oversaw a rapid, unprecedented dismantling of 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","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=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}