{"id":38988,"date":"2025-02-25T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38988"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:54:33","slug":"musks-demands-trigger-mass-doge-resignations-and-cabinet-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38988","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s demands trigger mass Doge resignations and cabinet backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Musk\u2019s Doge demands wreak havoc in federal agencies and its cost-cutting impact may be having less impact than he claims \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday at a glance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More than 20 staffers of Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/musk-doge-employees-resign\">stepped down on Tuesday,<\/a>&nbsp;saying in a joint letter they refused to use their expertise to \u201cdismantle critical public services\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The mass resignations are the latest rebuke to the billionaire entrepreneur\u2019s hard-handed approach to slashing jobs and resources from federal government agencies. Musk had demanded federal workers email his office with five things they did the week prior to justify their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/trump-deffends-musk-federal-workers\">Donald Trump defended Musk<\/a>&nbsp;from a mounting backlash in his own administration after some cabinet members \u2013 including the FBI director, Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, the national intelligence director \u2013 told their employees to ignore the demand and refrain from emailing a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk\u2019s Doge demands wreak havoc in federal agencies and its cost-cutting impact may be having less impact than he claims \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday at a glance More than 20 staffers of Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge)&nbsp;stepped down on Tuesday,&nbsp;saying in a joint letter they refused to use their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2717,31218,1330],"class_list":["post-38988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-demands","tag-doge","tag-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38991,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions\/38991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}