DOGE already cracking at the seams? Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly plans to step aside after 'friction' with staff

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 19 January 2025 23:03 EST


Former presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is reportedly expected to leave his post at the Department of Government Efficiency.

President-elect Donald Trump appointed Ramaswamy to co-lead the agency — which will operate outside of government — alongside the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. Trump and the co-chairs have promised to slash the federal budget, primarily through drastic cuts to agencies and mass firings.

Now Ramaswamy is expected to soon step down from the position, CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the agency’s internal dynamics. Ramaswamy is also planning to run for Ohio governor to replace Mike DeWine, the current term-limited Republican state leader, according to an earlier report from The Washington Post.

The entrepreneur’s expected resignation is a result of friction between him and incoming agency staff, according to CBS News. Those close to Musk have also undercut Ramaswamy in recent weeks, CBS News reports, and are frustrated with his lack of participation in the heavy lifting.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/vivek-ramaswamy-doge-department-government-efficiency-b2682558.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Note to stenographers at the Independent: It's not a Department. . . . . nt

[Bengus81]

7. If repeated three times it becomes a Dept. Just ask Hitler and Goebbels...........

[GB_RN]

2. Whaaaaaat!

A narcissistic egotistical maniac has friction with the untermenschen and hired help?

I’m shocked.

[2naSalit]

3. I suspect that...

It's because he's planning to run for vance's vacated seat in the Senate.

[lonely bird]

6. Either that

Or governor. Either way Ohio is fucked.

[2naSalit]

9. Yup...

Unless he loses somehow.

[Sedona]

4. Our first negative Scaramucci

per Stephanie Miller

https://freespeech.org/watch-live/

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. The nutjob is too nutty for the nuts.

[Bengus81]

8. Shrimp boat is OUT..........

[PortTack]

10. Wrong skin tone...who di see that coming?

[Frank D. Lincoln]

11. That's exactly what I was thinking. nt

[FakeNoose]

12. Musk and Ramaswamy were never going to get along

... besides that, Vivek wants to run for the Senate seat in Ohio that Vance just vacated.

[colorado_ufo]

14. And Musk wants to run things alone.

It was planned from the start, I would place money on it. He was just a "filler" to make the "DOGE" look more legitimate.

[andym]

13. Room for only ONE big ego at the top

Musk vs Trump is the big battle.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. There is a bingo card for people tfg will fire

Vivek was only the first to go

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Get out of DOGE: How Musk helped eject Ramaswamy

As I suspected, Musk could not stand anyone else getting any attention and got rid of VR

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487

Elon Musk has already achieved his first cut at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency: his co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy.

Musk, the tech tycoon and Donald Trump confidant, made it known that he wanted Ramaswamy out of DOGE in recent days, according to three people familiar with Musk’s preferences who, like others for this article, were granted anonymity to discuss them. An ill-received holiday rant on X by Ramaswamy about H-1B visas apparently hastened his demise.

Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.

Ramaswamy “just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,” said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. “Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.”

One main reason for some Republicans’ frustration with Ramaswamy was a post he made on X during a discussion of H-1B visas. In late December, Ramaswamy criticized American culture, saying that tech companies hire foreign workers in part because of a mindset in the country that has “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”

[BradBo]

17. Musk is gonna hit that ketamine and try to fire all federal employees. Total shit show.