{"id":153842,"date":"2025-06-03T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153842\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:03:19","slug":"elon-musks-failure-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153842\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s failure in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">WHEN DONALD TRUMP announced last November that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2025\/03\/27\/is-elon-musk-remaking-government-or-breaking-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> would be heading a government-efficiency initiative, many of his fellow magnates were delighted. The idea, wrote Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, was \u201cone of the greatest things I\u2019ve ever read.\u201d Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, wrote his own three-step guide to how DOGE, as it became known, could influence government policy. Even Bernie Sanders, a left-wing senator, tweeted hedged support, saying that Mr Musk was \u201cright\u201d, pointing to waste and fraud in the defence budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN DONALD TRUMP announced last November that Elon Musk would be heading a government-efficiency initiative, many of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,295,49,978,659,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-153842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114617452004807547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}