{"id":35416,"date":"2025-03-08T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/trump-denies-musk-clashed-with-cabinet-members\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:17:19","slug":"trump-denies-musk-clashed-with-cabinet-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/trump-denies-musk-clashed-with-cabinet-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denies Musk clashed with cabinet members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pushed back against Elon Musk\u2019s downsizing of the federal workforce in a recent closed-door cabinet meeting, according to two sources familiar with the exchanges. But President Trump said there was no clash. Plus, the Trump administration canceled approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University. NBC News\u2019 Gabe Gutierrez reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pushed back against Elon Musk\u2019s downsizing of the federal workforce in a recent closed-door cabinet meeting, according to two sources familiar with the exchanges. But President Trump said there was no clash. Plus, the Trump administration canceled approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia &#8230; <a title=\"Trump denies Musk clashed with cabinet members\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/trump-denies-musk-clashed-with-cabinet-members\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump denies Musk clashed with cabinet members\">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-35416","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\/35416","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=35416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}