{"id":27595,"date":"2025-02-23T14:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=27595"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:15:47","slug":"what-did-you-do-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/united-states\/what-did-you-do-last-week","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What did you do last week?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27597\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-federal.jpg?resize=1070%2C1137&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1070\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-federal.jpg?w=1070&amp;ssl=1 1070w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-federal.jpg?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-federal.jpg?resize=964%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 964w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-federal.jpg?resize=768%2C816&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1070px) 100vw, 1070px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What did you do last week?<\/em>&#8220;\u2014this is the form sent by Musk&#8217;s teams to all U.S. government servants.<\/p>\n<p><br data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"102\" \/>The American government is now run like a startup!<\/p>\n<p><br data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"155\" \/>Even more bureaucracy to ease bureaucracy, in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;What did you do last week?&#8220;\u2014this is the form sent by Musk&#8217;s teams to all U.S. government servants. 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