Department of Transportation employees who provide support for Starlink and SpaceX launches safe amid job cuts<\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d and the Trump administration have spared the jobs of US Department of Transportation employees who provide support services for spacecraft launches by Musk\u2019s companies, SpaceX and Starlink \u2013 a revelation that raises a new round of conflict of interest questions around Doge.<\/p>\n
In its most recent buyout announcement, the transportation department did not note<\/a> that the positions spared supported Musk\u2019s and others\u2019 space operations.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Department of Transportation employees who provide support for Starlink and SpaceX launches safe amid job cuts Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d and the Trump administration have spared the jobs of US Department of Transportation employees who provide support services for spacecraft launches by Musk\u2019s companies, SpaceX and Starlink \u2013 a revelation that raises a … 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-39137","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\/39137","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=39137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}