{"id":94338,"date":"2026-10-18T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-doge-took-down-a-protector-of-your-privacy-fareed-discusses\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:44:20","slug":"how-doge-took-down-a-protector-of-your-privacy-fareed-discusses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-doge-took-down-a-protector-of-your-privacy-fareed-discusses\/","title":{"rendered":"How DOGE took down a protector of your privacy: Fareed discusses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, Elon Musk took charge of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut government <!--more--> spending. Those who pushed back against DOGE\u2019s cuts were labeled \u201cblockers\u201d by Musk.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria speaks to author and journalist Micheal Lewis about his new book \u201cBlockers: Rebels in the Deep State,\u201d which tells the stories from some of these civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Elon Musk and DOGE\u2019s efforts to cut $2T in spending<br \/>\n3:09 DOGE goes after the IRS\u2019 chief privacy officer<br \/>\n5:54 DOGE\u2019s unprecedented assault on government<br \/>\n8:10 How much did DOGE actually cut?<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stream more on CNN with an All Access subscription: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.it\/4AZMu54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/cnn.it\/4AZMu54<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, Elon Musk took charge of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94353,"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-94338","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\/94338","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=94338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}