{"id":9625,"date":"2025-05-25T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:21:30","slug":"elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/elon-musk-visits-capitol-hill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk visits Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk paid a visit to Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon to chat with senators about energy issues, artificial intelligence and enhancing competitiveness against the Chinese government. 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 in something of a surprise appearance to most lawmakers and aides: After overseeing a rapid&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/21\/congress\/musk-on-the-hill-00363782\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk paid a visit to Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon to chat with senators about energy issues, artificial intelligence and enhancing competitiveness against the Chinese government. 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 [&hellip;]<\/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-9625","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\/9625","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=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}