{"id":4697,"date":"2026-03-14T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/elon-muskand-039-s-doge-staffers-say-and-039-noand-039-regrets-for-people-losing-income-get-grilled-in-deposition-after-using-chatgpt-to-cut-100-million-dei-grants\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:01:29","slug":"elon-muskand-039-s-doge-staffers-say-and-039-noand-039-regrets-for-people-losing-income-get-grilled-in-deposition-after-using-chatgpt-to-cut-100-million-dei-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/elon-muskand-039-s-doge-staffers-say-and-039-noand-039-regrets-for-people-losing-income-get-grilled-in-deposition-after-using-chatgpt-to-cut-100-million-dei-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s DOGE Staffers Say &#8216;No&#8217; Regrets For People Losing Income&#8230; Get Grilled In Deposition After Using ChatGPT To Cut $100 Million DEI Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/q8yGEKQ84bEl.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\">\n                <\/td>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">These two DOGE staffers, with zero government experience, cut funding for DEI programs thinking it?d shrink the federal deficit.. but it didn&#8217;t work. They say they got the power to make these decisions just by reading books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two DOGE staffers, with zero government experience, cut funding for DEI programs thinking it?d shrink the federal deficit.. but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}