{"id":34421,"date":"2025-02-26T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/musks-cost-cutting-drive-quietly-deletes-billions-in-claimed-savings-from-website\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:38:53","slug":"musks-cost-cutting-drive-quietly-deletes-billions-in-claimed-savings-from-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/musks-cost-cutting-drive-quietly-deletes-billions-in-claimed-savings-from-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Wall of receipts\u2019 drops five largest savings claimed by \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019 after debunking<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/25\/donald-trump-elon-musk-email-latest-us-politics-news-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s cost-cutting drive, the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency (Doge), posted its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doge.gov\/savings\">\u201cwall of receipts\u201d<\/a> boasting of major savings to the federal budget, the list was billed as the proud public interface of a radical shake-up of the US government.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, like much of Musk\u2019s unprecedented engagement with the federal bureaucracy, the initiative has been mired in errors, confusion and obfuscation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/musk-doge-savings-website\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Wall of receipts\u2019 drops five largest savings claimed by \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019 after debunking US politics live \u2013 latest updates When Elon Musk\u2019s cost-cutting drive, the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency (Doge), posted its \u201cwall of receipts\u201d boasting of major savings to the federal budget, the list was billed as the proud public interface &#8230; <a title=\"Musk\u2019s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/musks-cost-cutting-drive-quietly-deletes-billions-in-claimed-savings-from-website\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk\u2019s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website\">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-34421","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\/34421","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=34421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}