{"id":1773,"date":"2025-02-18T05:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2025-02-18T05:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:49:58","slug":"some-questions-for-my-elected-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/some-questions-for-my-elected-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"some questions for my elected representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musings from the wee hours. I sent these to my three Federal representatives this morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many references are being made in the news to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). By what authority is this a government department?<\/li>\n<li>I understand Elon Musk is very wealthy and probably isn\u2019t drawing a salary, but I see references to other \u2018DOGE employees\u2019. Who are these people? Are they being paid by the Federal government? Who determines their salaries? Do they get benefits?<\/li>\n<li>For years, the Republicans have used ruthless tactics to advance their agendas: gerrymandering congressional districts, the hanging chad riot, McConnell\u2019s obstructionism over the Supreme Court to name but a few. I am a retired Union worker. I have voted Democratic almost exclusively my whole life. When are the Democrats going to show that they can act with similar conviction?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musings from the wee hours. I sent these to my three Federal representatives this morning. Many references are being made in the news to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}