CBS News: Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE

[Dennis Donovan]

CBS News - Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE

By Jennifer Jacobs, Shawna Mizelle, Weijia Jiang, Fin Gómez

Updated on: January 19, 2025 / 5:02 PM EST / CBS News

Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with entrepreneur Elon Musk, is expected to soon step away from the task force, CBS News has learned. Ramaswamy intends to announce a campaign for Ohio governor as soon as the end of January, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.

Ramaswamy, 39, had no comment.

People close to Musk have privately undercut Ramaswamy for weeks, frustrated with his lack of participation in the heavy lifting, according to sources familiar with the internal dynamics. There has been friction between the incoming rank and file DOGE staff and Ramaswamy, the sources said, and Ramaswamy has been subtly encouraged to exit.

"Vivek has worn out his welcome," one person close to Trump said.

Ramaswamy recently met with the Ohio's sitting governor, Mike DeWine, about the state's Senate seat left vacant by Vice President-elect JD Vance. But on Friday, DeWine announced he is appointing his lieutenant governor to the post.

/snip

Ahahahaha! I guess Elmo didn't want a babysitter!

[Lovie777]

1. Duh...........

the clash of the titans.

[underpants]

9. Gee wonder what private school Apartheid Elon thinks of Viveck

🤔

[DBoon]

27. That Viveck belongs to an inferior social caste

People from India were a category separate from whites, as were "Coloured" (mixed race) and Blacks.

I'm sure it rankled Elon to think that someone from an inferior race should be treated as a peer.

[underpants]

28. No doubt.

The funny thing is that Trump pals around with Elon who has to see Trump as Long Island trash*

* yes i know the implication of “trash”

[brush]

19. Of course those two huge egos clashing was just a matter to time.

One an aparthied adjacent a-hole and one decidedly brown...not much promise there.

And Ramy as Ohio gov? No way.

[JustAnotherGen]

29. I think it was Senator

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Smarmy is going to run for OH governor.

[Dem4life1234]

6. Michigan ......

At least we're not Ohio!

[Prairie Gates]

3. Ramaswamy...we hardly knew thee

[Klarkashton]

4. Rat fucker realized that there was no percentage in it for him.

Moves in to the next grift. He has made a career out of this shit.

[Dem4life1234]

5. I wish the entire thing was dismantled

Leave people's money alone!

[Journeyman]

7. So how's Empty Greene making out as Congressional liaison to the Doge? . . .

I figure we'll have a similar story about her any day now. Muskrat doesn't like to share his tawdry glories.

[elleng]

8. BYE BYE!!!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. Another token tossed aside like a cheap cracker jack prize.

Wake up dude!

[Silent Type]

11. In other words, Ram failed. Even Musk has said they can't achieve what they hoped.

[BannonsLiver]

12. He lasted roughly 6 Scaramucci's

[JustAnotherGen]

30. I forgot

About him! But I can do the Fandango.

[underpants]

13. Does he have a note from his mother? Another $cam

There will be lots of money and Trump support (unless Elon changes what people on certain areas get to see) but how’s he going to play with the rank and file Ohio Repubs?

He was born in Cincinnati. Monotheistic Hindu too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

[OrlandoDem2]

14. Hello Gov Sherrod Brown!!

[sop]

15. There is no such thing as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

It's something Trump made up. It's bullshit.

[tanyev]

16. Malignant narcissists not so good at "plays well with others".

[Brenda]

17. Vivek is as delusional as the rest of Chump's picks.

Having grown up in Ohio and seeing how much more racist it has become over the years there is no way in hell they'd vote for him as Gov.

Having said that I'm glad he's out of the Federal picture.

[RainCaster]

18. I think you're right

I have too many racist relatives in Ohio, and even if TSF ever endorsed him none of my cousins would vote for him. Unless Faux News told them to. Then they might listen.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. CBS Stenographers take note: It's not a Department. . . . . nt

[JI7]

21. Seems like Musk wanted Vivek to be like one of his H1b emolyees

Can't see him winning office as a Republican.

[andym]

22. Room for one ego at the top

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Will it be Trump or Musk?

[Lunabell]

23. The pale guy wins once again in magat land.

It was only a matter of time before this "DEI" hire was expendable.

[tulipsandroses]

24. What a surprise! LOL - His 15 mins of fame is over - well, there's always room on Fox or Newsmax

As far as politics, he will never get anywhere. He fulfilled his purpose talking shit about black folks.
They got their orange god back in power.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

Vivek was only the first to go

Link to tweet

[Hassler]

26. Apparently even Leon has a limited tolerance

For Vivek rhymes with fake.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. 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.”