Musk Sends Ramaswamy Millions in Ohio Despite Their Clashes Over DOGE

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Source: The New York Times

Musk Sends Ramaswamy Millions in Ohio Despite Their Clashes Over DOGE

Elon Musk gave $5 million to back Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for Ohio governor, seemingly moving past tensions around the effort to downsize the federal work force.


Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy developed a frosty relationship after President Trump named them as the leaders of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times; Eric Lee/The New York Times

By Theodore
https://www.nytimes.com/by/theodore-schleifer
Reporting from Washington
July 15, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET

In the weeks after President Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the two men and their allies developed a frosty relationship. Just as Mr. Trump was inaugurated last January, Mr. Ramaswamy left the initiative, aimed at downsizing the federal work force, before it began, and Mr. Musk took charge.

But they seem to have buried the hatchet: Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person, donated $5 million in May to back Mr. Ramaswamy’s bid to be governor of Ohio, according to a campaign-finance filing made public on Wednesday.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-doge.html

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Millions is just pocket change for Musk.

Ramaswamy is pretty unpopular here in Ohio and they are getting desperate.

[Walleye]

2. That's why these guys run for an office they know they'r.e not gonna win., bribes turn into "Campaign donations"

[hlthe2b]

3. Ramaswamy comes off as fake and manipulative as JD Vance to me, so perhaps the same

idiots who elected Vance with his big Tech Bro $$ will support him? Is that the belief in pouring all this money into Ramaswamy? I thought the bigots in that coalition had turned away...?

[Botany]

4. Link Rama lama ding dong to Musk whose gutting of USAID has killed @ least 1 million Blacks in Africa

And then we have the black vote. Except for voter data manipulation by Musk, Thiel, Palantir,
Starlink, ballot proof, and that the Republicans own the voting architecture too.