Vivek Ramaswamy Steps Down From Doge

Vivek Ramaswamy has stepped down from co-leading President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to nan Associated Press. The charismatic connection arsenic to why Ramaswamy is moving connected is that he plans to tally for elected agency — he reportedly intends to tally for Ohio governor.

“Vivek Ramaswamy played a captious domiciled successful helping america create DOGE,” spokesperson Anna Kelly says successful nan relationship to nan Associated Press. “He intends to tally for elected agency soon, which requires him to enactment extracurricular of DOGE, based connected nan building that we announced today. We convey him immensely for his contributions complete nan past 2 months and expect him to play a captious domiciled successful making America awesome again.”

Trump gave DOGE, which is not a conception of nan US government, nan remit to counsel cuts to “wasteful” authorities spending. Musk and Ramaswamy spelled retired their plans successful a Wall Street Journal article. But CBS News reported yesterday that Ramaswamy was connected nan measurement out:

People adjacent to Musk personification privately undercut Ramaswamy for weeks, disappointment pinch his deficiency of accusation successful nan dense lifting, according to sources acquainted pinch nan psyche dynamics. There has been conflict betwixt nan incoming rank and grounds DOGE portion and Ramaswamy, nan sources said, and Ramaswamy has been subtly encouraged to exit.

Ramaswamy hasn’t said connected X if he’s stepping distant from DOGE, but he did station a image coming pinch Musk. A less days ago, he too quote-tweeted a parody relationship that “announced” Ramaswamy’s candidacy for Ohio governor, saying that it’s “not a bad idea.”

DOGE is already nan taxable of astatine slightest 3 lawsuits.