{"id":1237755,"date":"2025-03-07T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237755"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:50:41","slug":"trump-scrambles-to-cover-his-ass-as-courts-zero-in-on-musks-role-at-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237755","title":{"rendered":"Trump Scrambles to Cover His Ass as Courts Zero-In on Musk\u2019s Role at DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk and Donald Trump at a SpaceX Launch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Elon-Musk-and-Donald-Trump-at-a-SpaceX-Launch-1-896x597.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\"><\/p>\n<p>Trump claims DOGE will proceed with a &#8220;scalpel&#8221;-like approach to government cost-cutting which, based on the unit&#8217;s history, is doubtful.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump claims DOGE will proceed with a &#8220;scalpel&#8221;-like approach to government cost-cutting which, based on the unit&#8217;s history, is doubtful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}