{"id":16548,"date":"2024-11-14T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16548"},"modified":"2024-11-14T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:23:24","slug":"techies-push-other-techies-to-musk-to-join-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16548","title":{"rendered":"Techies Push Other Techies to Musk to Join Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former top Uber executive to head the Department of Transportation. A former top aide to Peter Thiel<\/a> to head the Department of Health and Human Services. And a cadre of other tech executives to join Elon Musk<\/a> at the Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

Such is the wish list for the elite of Silicon Valley at the dawn of the Trump administration. Behind closed doors over the last week, a range of tech leaders have put forth their own brethren in coordinated efforts to try to leave a distinctly Silicon Valley imprint on a cabinet lineup that appears to be open to persuasion.<\/p>\n

Much of that power of persuasion has been trained on Mr. Musk. While the world\u2019s richest man is not technically on Mr. Trump\u2019s transition committee, he has become a de facto official of the incoming administration. Vice President-elect JD Vance, who formally serves on the transition committee, also has deep Silicon Valley ties from his former career as a venture capitalist.<\/p>\n

All of which makes it easier for tech investors and executives \u2014 more so than those of other industries such as finance or oil and gas \u2014 to get Mr. Trump\u2019s attention, even if the overtures ultimately fall flat. The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of Mr. Musk\u2019s friends, the investor and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, spent just over a day this week at Mar-a-Lago helping Mr. Musk with the transition effort, according to three people with knowledge of his activities. Mr. Lonsdale has told the transition team that he is not interested in a full-time government gig, but he and other longtime tech friends have helped funnel names and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s into Mr. Musk\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tech leaders want to see Emil Michael, a former top executive at Uber, to lead the Department of Transportation in the Trump administration.<\/span>Andrew Kelly\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A former top Uber executive to head the Department of Transportation. A former top aide to Peter Thiel to head the Department of Health and Human Services. And a cadre of other tech executives to join Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency.Such is the wish list for the elite of Silicon Valley at the dawn of the Trump administration. Behind closed doors over the last week, a range of tech leaders have put forth their own brethren in coordinated efforts to try to leave a distinctly Silicon Valley imprint on a cabinet lineup that appears to be open to persuasion.Much of that power of persuasion has been trained on Mr. Musk. While the world\u2019s richest man is not technically on Mr. Trump\u2019s transition committee, he has become a de facto official of the incoming administration. Vice President-elect JD Vance, who formally serves on the transition committee, also has deep Silicon Valley ties from his former career as a venture capitalist.All of which makes it easier for tech investors and executives \u2014 more so than those of other industries such as finance or oil and gas \u2014 to get Mr. Trump\u2019s attention, even if the overtures ultimately fall flat. The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment.One of Mr. Musk\u2019s friends, the investor and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, spent just over a day this week at Mar-a-Lago helping Mr. Musk with the transition effort, according to three people with knowledge of his activities. Mr. Lonsdale has told the transition team that he is not interested in a full-time government gig, but he and other longtime tech friends have helped funnel names and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s into Mr. Musk\u2019s orbit.Tech leaders want to see Emil Michael, a former top executive at Uber, to lead the Department of Transportation in the Trump administration.Andrew Kelly\/ReutersWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16550,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16551,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions\/16551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}