{"id":32516,"date":"2025-02-05T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/elon-musks-assault-on-us-government-prompts-muted-republican-disquiet\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:17:55","slug":"elon-musks-assault-on-us-government-prompts-muted-republican-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/elon-musks-assault-on-us-government-prompts-muted-republican-disquiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s assault on US government prompts muted Republican disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP senators refrain from direct criticism of billionaire who has been on destructive rampage through federal offices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/05\/cia-staff-buyout-offer-donald-trump-gaza-china-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some Republican senators have begun voicing muted alarm over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s aggressive intrusion into the US federal government, which has triggered Democrat accusations of a coup.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has provoked opposition outrage after forcing access to the government\u2019s payments and personnel system for his self-styled \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d(Doge), a body established by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> ostensibly to target waste and save money but which lacks congressional authority or oversight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/05\/musk-republicans-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP senators refrain from direct criticism of billionaire who has been on destructive rampage through federal offices US politics live \u2013 latest updates Some Republican senators have begun voicing muted alarm over Elon Musk\u2019s aggressive intrusion into the US federal government, which has triggered Democrat accusations of a coup. Musk has provoked opposition outrage after &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s assault on US government prompts muted Republican disquiet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/elon-musks-assault-on-us-government-prompts-muted-republican-disquiet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk\u2019s assault on US government prompts muted Republican disquiet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}