{"id":33672,"date":"2025-02-18T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/musk-is-just-an-adviser-with-no-power-to-make-decisions-white-house-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:50:50","slug":"musk-is-just-an-adviser-with-no-power-to-make-decisions-white-house-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/musk-is-just-an-adviser-with-no-power-to-make-decisions-white-house-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk is just an adviser with no power to make decisions, White House claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal filing says billionaire Trump aide is not an employee of so-called \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second presidential administration is as an Oval Office employee and senior adviser to the president \u2013 and is not an employee of the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a filing signed by Joshua Fisher, director of the office of administration at the White House, Musk can only advise Trump and communicate the president\u2019s directives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/turmp-elon-musk-doge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal filing says billionaire Trump aide is not an employee of so-called \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019 Billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s role in Donald Trump\u2019s second presidential administration is as an Oval Office employee and senior adviser to the president \u2013 and is not an employee of the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) and has no &#8230; <a title=\"Musk is just an adviser with no power to make decisions, White House claims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/musk-is-just-an-adviser-with-no-power-to-make-decisions-white-house-claims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk is just an adviser with no power to make decisions, White House claims\">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-33672","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\/33672","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=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}