{"id":11168,"date":"2025-02-04T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:46:56","slug":"elon-musk-appointed-as-special-government-employee-amid-doge-department-push-cant-do-anything-without-our-approval-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11168","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Appointed As &#8216;Special Government Employee&#8217; Amid DOGE Department Push: &#8216;Can&#8217;t Do Anything Without Our Approval,&#8217; Says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The White House has appointed <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, the wealthiest individual globally, as a \u201cspecial government employee.\u201d This designation allows Musk\u00a0to be employed by the federal\u00a0government while potentially sidestepping certain disclosure rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: As reported by\u00a0Reuters, Musk, who continues to helm\u00a0<strong>Tesla Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/TSLA#NASDAQ\">TSLA<\/a>) and SpaceX, has been charged with leading Trump\u2019s cost-cutting initiative,\u00a0the <strong>Department of Government Efficiency<\/strong>.\u00a0This role has granted Musk\u2019s team access to various government systems, triggering concern and turmoil within some agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s new designation could enable him to bypass\u00a0disclosure rules about conflicts of\u00a0interest and finances applicable to regular government employees. He will not receive a paycheck. This development has sparked scrutiny, with Democratic lawmakers voicing concerns over a billionaire without an electoral mandate gaining substantial\u00a0power over &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43452103\/elon-musk-appointed-as-special-government-employee-amid-doge-department-push-cant-do-anything-without-our-approva\" alt=\"Elon\" musk appointed as government employee amid doge department push: do anything without our approval says trump>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has appointed Elon Musk, the wealthiest individual globally, as a \u201cspecial government employee.\u201d This designation allows Musk\u00a0to be employed by the federal\u00a0government while potentially sidestepping certain disclosure rules. What Happened: As reported by\u00a0Reuters, Musk, who continues to helm\u00a0Tesla Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX, has been charged with leading Trump\u2019s cost-cutting initiative,\u00a0the Department of Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}