{"id":35257,"date":"2025-03-06T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/federal-workers-block-musks-doge-from-shutting-down-africa-development-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:56:57","slug":"federal-workers-block-musks-doge-from-shutting-down-africa-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/federal-workers-block-musks-doge-from-shutting-down-africa-development-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers block Musk\u2019s \u2018Doge\u2019 from shutting down Africa development agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US African Development Foundation staff barred entry to efficiency agency, defying Trump\u2019s shutdown order<\/p>\n<p>Members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) unit were barred from entering a US government agency promoting economic development in Africa after a tense standoff with federal staff they had been sent to fire.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the US African Development Foundation (USADF), which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has ordered to be closed, refused to allow Doge operatives to enter after they arrived at its Washington headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/06\/federal-workers-block-musks-doge-africa-development-agency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US African Development Foundation staff barred entry to efficiency agency, defying Trump\u2019s shutdown order Members of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) unit were barred from entering a US government agency promoting economic development in Africa after a tense standoff with federal staff they had been sent to fire. Workers at the US African &#8230; <a title=\"Federal workers block Musk\u2019s \u2018Doge\u2019 from shutting down Africa development agency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/federal-workers-block-musks-doge-from-shutting-down-africa-development-agency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal workers block Musk\u2019s \u2018Doge\u2019 from shutting down Africa development agency\">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-35257","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\/35257","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=35257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}