{"id":32948,"date":"2025-02-10T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musks-gutting-of-us-agencies-is-illegal-experts-say-how-do-you-muzzle-doge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:43:39","slug":"elon-musks-gutting-of-us-agencies-is-illegal-experts-say-how-do-you-muzzle-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musks-gutting-of-us-agencies-is-illegal-experts-say-how-do-you-muzzle-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s gutting of US agencies is illegal, experts say. How do you muzzle Doge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s richest man has unleashed a flurry moves ranging from compromising Americans\u2019 private data to nearly upending USAid. Where does it stop?<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3169272\/dod-announces-new-defense-advisory-committee-on-diversity-and-inclusion\/\">proudly announced<\/a> a committee on diversity and inclusion, with a Marine veteran and senior director at Tesla, serving as a member. The same person, who spent nearly six years at Tesla, also helped push Elon Musk to make <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/06\/19\/tesla-juneteenth-holiday-elon-musk-pressure-black-lives-matter\/\">Juneteenth a company-wide holiday<\/a>. But Musk is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/13\/elon-musk-conflict-of-interest\">notorious recipient of lucrative government contracts<\/a> and changes with the winds of presidential administrations.<\/p>\n<p>Now in 2025, as a \u201cspecial government employee\u201d heading up the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), Musk is going to war with those kinds of government diversity and inclusion programs and slashing whatever he sees as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1887161421969936489\">waste<\/a>\u201d of public coffers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/10\/elon-musk-doge-agency-illegal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s richest man has unleashed a flurry moves ranging from compromising Americans\u2019 private data to nearly upending USAid. Where does it stop? In 2022, the Pentagon proudly announced a committee on diversity and inclusion, with a Marine veteran and senior director at Tesla, serving as a member. The same person, who spent nearly six years &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s gutting of US agencies is illegal, experts say. How do you muzzle Doge?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musks-gutting-of-us-agencies-is-illegal-experts-say-how-do-you-muzzle-doge\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk\u2019s gutting of US agencies is illegal, experts say. How do you muzzle Doge?\">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-32948","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\/32948","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=32948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}