{"id":75668,"date":"2025-02-12T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/elon-musk-defends-us-government-cost-cutting-plans-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:47:11","slug":"elon-musk-defends-us-government-cost-cutting-plans-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/elon-musk-defends-us-government-cost-cutting-plans-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk defends US government cost-cutting plans | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk denied leading a &#8220;hostile takeover&#8221; of the US government and defended his cost-cutting plans as he made a <!--more--> surprise first appearance at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has signed an order giving Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) more authority to cut the federal workforce, and instructed heads of government agencies to comply.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Verify\u2019s Jake Horton fact-checked Musk\u2019s claims &#8211; including his false claim that the US government was sending millions of dollars worth of condoms to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#US #ElonMusk #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk denied leading a &#8220;hostile takeover&#8221; of the US government and defended his cost-cutting plans as he made a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}