{"id":151392,"date":"2025-02-19T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:09:12","slug":"us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration","title":{"rendered":"US DOGE: Trump reveals Elon Musk role in his administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The United States, US, President, Donald Trump, has disclosed the role of billionaire tech guru Elon Musk as his enforcer-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, team are responsible for implementing his executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint interview with Fox News, the US president maintained that his policies should be implemented without delay, adding that Musk was instrumental in pushing them forward.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trump: \u201cYou write an executive order and you think it\u2019s done, you send it out, it doesn\u2019t get done. It doesn\u2019t get implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd some guy that maybe didn\u2019t want to do it, all of a sudden, he\u2019s signing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, both Musk and Trump praised each other while dismissing concerns that the president is overstepping his executive powers.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has signed scores of executive orders in the past three weeks, many of which have been challenged in the courts as potentially unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest functions of the DOGE team is just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out,\u201d Musk told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The United States, US, President, Donald Trump, has disclosed the role of billionaire tech guru Elon Musk as his enforcer-in-chief. Trump said Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, team are responsible for implementing his executive orders. In a joint interview with Fox News, the US president maintained that his policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":151391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[2392,254,1030,15852],"class_list":["post-151392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-elon-musk","tag-nigeria","tag-trump","tag-us-doge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US DOGE: Trump reveals Elon Musk role in his administration - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The United States, US, President, Donald Trump, has disclosed the role of billionaire tech guru Elon Musk as his enforce ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US DOGE: Trump reveals Elon Musk role in his administration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The United States, US, President, Donald Trump, has disclosed the role of billionaire tech guru Elon Musk as his enforce ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-19T09:17:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-20T22:09:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739947711.318303.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US DOGE: Trump reveals Elon Musk role in his administration\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-19T09:17:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-20T22:09:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739947711.318303.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Elon Musk\",\"Nigeria\",\"Trump\",\"US DOGE\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/us-doge-trump-reveals-elon-musk-role-in-his-administration\",\"name\":\"US DOGE: Trump reveals Elon Musk role in his administration - 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