{"id":21546,"date":"2025-02-04T19:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21546"},"modified":"2025-02-04T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:29:42","slug":"elon-musks-x-becomes-weapon-in-government-cost-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21546","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X Becomes Weapon in Government Cost Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The billionaire has used the social media site to boast of victories, lash out at enemies and conduct polls for the initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

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As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform<\/a> to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way.<\/p>\n

Since the inauguration, Mr. Musk has attacked journalists and X users for posting the names of people working with him, calling it \u201ca crime.\u201d He\u2019s accused Treasury Department officials of \u201cbreaking the law every hour of every day.\u201d And Mr. Musk has mocked Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, as \u201chysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Mr. Musk celebrated his progress, posting he had fed the U.S. Agency for International Development<\/a>, the government\u2019s lead agency for humanitarian aid, \u201cinto the wood chipper.\u201d<\/p>\n

And on Tuesday, Mr. Musk began a poll on X: \u201cWould you like DOGE to audit the IRS?\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments show how Mr. Musk, who unlike traditional government figures rarely holds news conferences or speaks to reporters, is using his social media site as a powerful tool to promote his goals as part of the Trump administration. Since the inauguration, Mr. Musk has unleashed a barrage of posts<\/a> to his more than 215 million followers, promoting conspiratorial rumors about his adversaries, pressuring senators to confirm the president\u2019s cabinet picks and weighing in on foreign elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On top of that, Mr. Musk\u2019s account is becoming one of the few sources for information about the billionaire\u2019s secretive stampede to slash the federal budget, an initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

X has given Mr. Musk an unusual avenue to showcase his unapologetically confrontational approach to cost cutting in a way that appeals to President Trump\u2019s base, tech policy experts said.<\/p>\n

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The billionaire has used the social media site to boast of victories, lash out at enemies and conduct polls for the initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency.As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way.Since the inauguration, Mr. Musk has attacked journalists and X users for posting the names of people working with him, calling it \u201ca crime.\u201d He\u2019s accused Treasury Department officials of \u201cbreaking the law every hour of every day.\u201d And Mr. Musk has mocked Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, as \u201chysterical.\u201dOn Monday, Mr. Musk celebrated his progress, posting he had fed the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government\u2019s lead agency for humanitarian aid, \u201cinto the wood chipper.\u201dAnd on Tuesday, Mr. Musk began a poll on X: \u201cWould you like DOGE to audit the IRS?\u201dThe comments show how Mr. Musk, who unlike traditional government figures rarely holds news conferences or speaks to reporters, is using his social media site as a powerful tool to promote his goals as part of the Trump administration. Since the inauguration, Mr. Musk has unleashed a barrage of posts to his more than 215 million followers, promoting conspiratorial rumors about his adversaries, pressuring senators to confirm the president\u2019s cabinet picks and weighing in on foreign elections.On top of that, Mr. Musk\u2019s account is becoming one of the few sources for information about the billionaire\u2019s secretive stampede to slash the federal budget, an initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency.X has given Mr. Musk an unusual avenue to showcase his unapologetically confrontational approach to cost cutting in a way that appeals to President Trump\u2019s base, tech policy experts said.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":21548,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21546","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\/21546","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=21546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21549,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions\/21549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}