Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with Elon Musk, says he plans to run for governor of Ohio, reported the Washington Post on Friday,
The entrepreneur will continue leading Donald J. Trump’s government efficiency project before turning his attention to a campaign. He has encountered some turbulence with Mr. Trump, and with Elon Musk.
Trump famously invited fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an effort to cut government spending and federal payrolls. But in December Musk went rogue and used his vast social media reach to scuttle a spending bill he didn’t like, complicating Trump’s and the GOP’s fiscal plans in the new session of Congress.
An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.
For decades, reformers have laid siege to the bureaucracy and failed. DOGE could be different.
Impact Link President-elect Donald Trump has started to announce who will staff the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting commission helmed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. In addition to significantly paring back the federal budget ...