{"id":18141,"date":"2025-03-16T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/democrats-train-fire-on-musk-as-unelected-billionaire-dips-in-popularity\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:37:27","slug":"democrats-train-fire-on-musk-as-unelected-billionaire-dips-in-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/democrats-train-fire-on-musk-as-unelected-billionaire-dips-in-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders on left bet on Musk\u2019s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts<\/p>\n<p>For most of the 17-minute interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to \u201celiminate waste and fraud\u201d from government.<\/p>\n<p>His slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was making \u201cgood progress actually\u201d, he told the Fox Business commentator Larry Kudlow on Monday, despite sparking a backlash that has reverberated far beyond Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/16\/democrats-musk-trump-administration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3c8818673e4d9ba28b812fae2431d6a37adb7d08\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=be2e673e142b914ceb94071a64402343\" title=\"Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity\" \/>Leaders on left bet on Musk\u2019s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts<br \/>\nFor most of the 17-minute interview, Elon Musk stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to \u201celiminate waste and fraud\u201d from government.<br \/>\nHis slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was making \u201cgood progress actually\u201d, he told the Fox Business commentator Larry Kudlow on Monday, despite sparking a backlash that has reverberated far beyond Washington. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders on left bet on Musk\u2019s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts For most of the 17-minute interview, Elon Musk stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to \u201celiminate waste and fraud\u201d from government. His slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/democrats-train-fire-on-musk-as-unelected-billionaire-dips-in-popularity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}