{"id":12850074,"date":"2025-11-21T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12850074"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:06:06","slug":"inside-the-doge-succession-drama-elon-musk-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/11\/21\/inside-the-doge-succession-drama-elon-musk-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/11\/21\/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>What really happened when he logged out of Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"uppercase hover:text-current font-bold text-gray-vulcan-51 js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/sophia-cai\" target=\"_top\" data-tracking=\"mpos=center&amp;mid=ar_body&amp;lindex=66&amp;lcol=\">Sophia Cai<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"uppercase hover:text-current font-bold text-gray-vulcan-51 js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/daniel-lippman\" target=\"_top\" data-tracking=\"mpos=center&amp;mid=ar_body&amp;lindex=67&amp;lcol=\">Daniel Lippman, Politics\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a Thursday afternoon in early June, 12 staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency packed up their clothes and bedding from the sixth-floor of the Government Services Administration headquarters where they had been sleeping since February, and looked for new homes.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the young engineers who had descended on the capital to shrink the federal bureaucracy had lived with the ever-present threat of backlash \u2014 public scrutiny, upset Cabinet officials, even the prospect that someone might assert criminal charges against them. But on the morning of June 5 something changed: Their figurehead, Elon Musk, had a falling-out with his patron, Donald Trump, that played out very publicly across the two men\u2019s social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/11\/21\/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind What really happened when he logged out of Washington. By\u00a0Sophia Cai\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Lippman, Politics\u00a0 On a Thursday afternoon in early June, 12 staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency packed up their clothes and bedding from the sixth-floor of the Government Services Administration headquarters where they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12850075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26922,21,1,12,25391],"tags":[371],"class_list":{"0":"post-12850074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market-news","8":"category-available","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-phils-favorites","11":"category-members-corner","12":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12850076,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850074\/revisions\/12850076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12850075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}