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Check out this article from MarketWatch - Why Vivek Ramaswamy is ditching Trump’s ‘DOGE’ commission led by Elon Musk
Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, made hundreds of millions of dollars at the intersection of hedge funds and pharmaceutical research, a career he charted and built while graduating from Harvard University and then Yale Law School.
He may be departing DOGE, but Ramaswamy was still circling Trump and Musk’s orbit on Monday, sharing photos of himself with Musk at Trump’s second inauguration.
The DOGE commission has drawn plenty of public scrutiny already, especially after Musk initially suggested they could cut “at least $2 trillion” from the current federal budget, which MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends suggested would entail cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Indeed, Musk has since walked back from that estimate, admitting in an interview streamed on his social-media platform X that even cutting half as much, or $1 trillion, would be a tall order, or an “epic result.”
Check out this article from MarketWatch - Why Vivek Ramaswamy is ditching Trump’s ‘DOGE’ commission led by Elon Musk
President Donald Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” is down a man already.
Billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who was tapped alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk to run Trump’s commission to “dismantle government bureaucracy,” is stepping down to run for governor of Ohio instead.
There had been reports over the weekend that the 39-year-old former Republican presidential candidate was planning to leave the “DOGE” commission, but he made it official hours after Trump took office on Monday.
“Vivek Ramaswamy played a critical role in helping us create DOGE,” Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the commission, said in a statement. “He intends to run for elected office soon, which requires him to remain outside of DOGE, based on the structure that we announced today. We thank him immensely for his contributions over the last 2 months and expect him to play a vital role in making America great again.”
Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, made hundreds of millions of dollars at the intersection of hedge funds and pharmaceutical research, a career he charted and built while graduating from Harvard University and then Yale Law School.
He may be departing DOGE, but Ramaswamy was still circling Trump and Musk’s orbit on Monday, sharing photos of himself with Musk at Trump’s second inauguration.
The DOGE commission has drawn plenty of public scrutiny already, especially after Musk initially suggested they could cut “at least $2 trillion” from the current federal budget, which MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends suggested would entail cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Indeed, Musk has since walked back from that estimate, admitting in an interview streamed on his social-media platform X that even cutting half as much, or $1 trillion, would be a tall order, or an “epic result.”