{"id":3229,"date":"2024-11-25T02:16:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2024-11-25T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:16:43","slug":"economist-slams-doge-tells-elon-musk-led-initiative-to-do-your-legal-job-well-amid-super-bowl-ad-spending-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"Economist Slams DOGE: Tells Elon Musk-Led Initiative To &#8216;Do Your Legal Job Well&#8217; Amid Super Bowl Ad Spending Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Prominent economist <strong>Claudia Sahm<\/strong> has criticized the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/global\/24\/11\/41927289\/trump-appoints-elon-musk-and-vivek-ramaswamy-to-lead-doge-targeting-bureaucracy-and-65-trillion-federal-spending-we-will-not-go-gently\">its leadership\u2019s approach to government spending<\/a>, particularly regarding their stance on the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s 2010 Super Bowl advertisement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> The controversy emerged after DOGE posted examples of government spending on X (formerly Twitter), including \u201c$2.5 million on a Super Bowl Ad for the Census.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate <strong>Vivek Ramaswamy<\/strong>, recently appointed as co-director of DOGE alongside <strong>Tesla Inc.<\/strong> CEO <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, responded that \u201cthe federal government shouldn\u2019t be in the business of buying Super Bowl ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sahm, creator of the widely-referenced Sahm Rule indicator, countered Ramaswamy\u2019s position, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Claudia_Sahm\/status\/1860781540445163719\">stating<\/a>, \u201cRule of thumb: the Census is in the Constitution. Do your legal job well.\u201d She defended the Census Bureau\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/social-media\/24\/11\/42155884\/economist-slams-doges-simplistic-approach-to-government-spending-questions-super-bowl-ad-cri\" alt=\"Economist\" slams doge: tells elon musk-led initiative to your legal job well amid super bowl ad spending clash>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent economist Claudia Sahm has criticized the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its leadership\u2019s approach to government spending, particularly regarding their stance on the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s 2010 Super Bowl advertisement. What Happened: The controversy emerged after DOGE posted examples of government spending on X (formerly Twitter), including \u201c$2.5 million on a [&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-3229","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\/3229","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=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}