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Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, is expected to step down to launch a campaign for Ohio governor.

Sources report friction between Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and incoming DOGE staff, with Musk's team criticizing his lack of participation and subtly encouraging his exit.

"Vivek has worn out his welcome," one Trump associate said.

DOGE, a task force to streamline federal bureaucracy, is not a formal agency.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's running for governor of Ohio. God damn that poor fucking state. I mean really I know they deserve it to some extent cuz they keep voting for these people, but they have just some of the worst most soul-crushing politicians the last 30 years I've ever seen

[–] timbuck2themoon 6 points 19 hours ago

It's terrible. Surrounded by idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Two people can't run the same bureau.

You'd think there would be some government agency whose purpose it is to identify redundancies like that...

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

DEI hire couldn’t cut it I guess.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Great, let's just leave it all up to Elon. What could possibly go wrong?

The only thing worse than 2 billionaires leading an unregulated government entity is a single billionaire leading it. Giving Elon completely unchecked power.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's not a government entity.

I don't think it even exists. We all know Elon doesn't do any actual work beyond tweeting and giving the engineers his latest harebrained idea. Have they started hiring staff? Office space? Anything to prove they exist at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

On Twitter they were asking people to work there for free.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Came to say the same thing, it's not even a real department, trump isn't president yet. You can't leave a job that never existed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

It's about to be. That's going to be one of Trump's first executive orders apparently. That and declaring an emergency on the border with Mexico and canceling the Green New Deal.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

It's not like Vivek was going to even check Elon. It's funny how he left it before he even started though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Cheer up, Brian! Now they can't blame anything on each other.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The one thing we have going for us is that this current iteration of fascists are way stupider than the last batch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Stupider, yes, but they seem to have learned one thing - fire all the competent people and replace them with lackeys who won't try to interfere with implementing your intrusive thoughts simply because they're illegal or pointless or impossible to do.

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