{"id":18355,"date":"2024-12-13T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18355"},"modified":"2024-12-13T17:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:25:36","slug":"elon-musks-playbook-for-doge-has-a-precedent-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18355","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Playbook for DOGE Has a Precedent: X"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts. He has used this method before.<\/p>\n

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Since President-elect Donald J. Trump last month named Elon Musk to help lead a new Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>, the tech billionaire has turned to X to trumpet his plans.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk, who owns the platform, has singled out at least four federal employees focused on climate issues \u2014 including the niece of Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California \u2014 who he suggested ought to lose their jobs. \u201cMaybe her advice is amazing,\u201d Mr. Musk joked of Alexis Pelosi, a senior climate adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Musk, X and Alexis Pelosi did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

He has also criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has fined him millions of dollars<\/a>. And on Sunday, he wrote, \u201cThe government is more broken than you could possibly imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The posts are part of Mr. Musk\u2019s plans to reduce the federal budget by $2 trillion, or 30 percent. To do so, he has proposed a return-to-office mandate<\/a> for government workers, suggesting that it would lead to mass resignations. He has suggested cutting entire agencies. And he has called for firing agency leaders like the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s outgoing chair, Lina Khan<\/a>, who led an investigation into privacy practices at X after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Musk\u2019s public flogging of government workers echoes the playbook he used during his contentious bid to buy X \u2014 then known as Twitter \u2014 in 2022. At the time, he publicly blasted company executives as being incompetent and floated suggestions for how he might run the business, including making major cost cuts.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk\u2019s use of the platform to publicly air his plans became a powerful tool in buying the social media company, rallying supporters to his cause and drawing in investors. Now he is employing the same strategy with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, persuading supporters to work for the effort and winning over politicians to achieve his goals.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts. He has used this method before.Since President-elect Donald J. Trump last month named Elon Musk to help lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, the tech billionaire has turned to X to trumpet his plans.Mr. Musk, who owns the platform, has singled out at least four federal employees focused on climate issues \u2014 including the niece of Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California \u2014 who he suggested ought to lose their jobs. \u201cMaybe her advice is amazing,\u201d Mr. Musk joked of Alexis Pelosi, a senior climate adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Musk, X and Alexis Pelosi did not respond to requests for comment.He has also criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has fined him millions of dollars. And on Sunday, he wrote, \u201cThe government is more broken than you could possibly imagine.\u201dThe posts are part of Mr. Musk\u2019s plans to reduce the federal budget by $2 trillion, or 30 percent. To do so, he has proposed a return-to-office mandate for government workers, suggesting that it would lead to mass resignations. He has suggested cutting entire agencies. And he has called for firing agency leaders like the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s outgoing chair, Lina Khan, who led an investigation into privacy practices at X after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover.Mr. Musk\u2019s public flogging of government workers echoes the playbook he used during his contentious bid to buy X \u2014 then known as Twitter \u2014 in 2022. At the time, he publicly blasted company executives as being incompetent and floated suggestions for how he might run the business, including making major cost cuts.Mr. Musk\u2019s use of the platform to publicly air his plans became a powerful tool in buying the social media company, rallying supporters to his cause and drawing in investors. Now he is employing the same strategy with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, persuading supporters to work for the effort and winning over politicians to achieve his goals.We 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":18357,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18355","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\/18355","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=18355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}