{"id":33407,"date":"2025-02-15T02:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/elon-musks-efficiency-agency-team-at-the-pentagon-to-meet-defense-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T02:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:47:34","slug":"elon-musks-efficiency-agency-team-at-the-pentagon-to-meet-defense-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/elon-musks-efficiency-agency-team-at-the-pentagon-to-meet-defense-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018efficiency\u2019 agency team at the Pentagon to meet defense staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump had said defense bureau was high on list of world\u2019s richest man\u2019s federal budget and personnel slashing team<\/p>\n<p>Members of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk\u2019s government budget and personnel slashing team and that he expects the tech billionaire to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse in the department.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/elon-musk-government-efficiency-team-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump had said defense bureau was high on list of world\u2019s richest man\u2019s federal budget and personnel slashing team Members of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018efficiency\u2019 agency team at the Pentagon to meet defense staff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/elon-musks-efficiency-agency-team-at-the-pentagon-to-meet-defense-staff\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018efficiency\u2019 agency team at the Pentagon to meet defense staff\">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-33407","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\/33407","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=33407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}