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Ramaswamy leaves Trump's government efficiency commission as he mulls run for Ohio governor

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By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JONATHAN J. COOPER

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What? I thought he was Trump's "DEI" hire?

Anyway, this Loser has about as much chance of being Governor as Mickey Mouse...

You think all those auto and tech workers are going to vote for a guy that called them all "mediocre" and wants to bring in more immigrants to replace them?

He's a MAGA-Idiot, just like all the rest...

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He should get this flawlessly

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That was quick and very short leaving Musk to do it all.

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What? I thought he was Trump's "DEI" hire?

Nah, that's Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka.

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I'm sure he'll be fine. There are evidently millions and millions of people out there more than willing to be conned in one way or another.

https://www.newsweek.com/vivek-ramaswamy-fraud-always-has-been-opinion-1823853

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All part of Musk's efficiency drive?

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Read the article. He wants to bring his magic to the Buckeye state.

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Lawsuits will.make you quit too

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""Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of the commission that President Donald Trump championed, officials confirmed hours after the Republican took office Monday, and that leaves billionaire Elon Musk to run the cost-cutting operation alone.""

Good news, as always one leader is better than two

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There are evidently millions and millions of people out there more than willing to be conned in one way or another.

Yeah, the ones who voted for Harris.

Vivek has likely been working in the background to set up DOGE and get good people to carry on the work.

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DOGE has already been changed. Minutes after inauguration, DOGE was slapped with lawsuits forcing to define itself - to choose whether it's a FACA group (the Federal Advisory Committee Act applies any time an agency seeks advice from a group whose members aren’t all federal employees and gathers that feedback for the agency’s own operations or activities) and thus have to follow FACA law (including transparency in decision-making and taking minutes for records publicly available - it cannot be a black box), or officially part of the government (and thus subject to ethics rules and conflicts of interest):

"Trump installs DOGE within White House, scrapping plan for an outsider task force"

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/01/trump-administration-faces-lawsuits-over-doges-membership/

President Donald Trump is launching his Department of Government Efficiency within the White House’s governmentwide IT and design shop, according to an executive order he signed Monday evening.

Trump’s executive order makes DOGE an official, but temporary, part of the Executive Office of the President. That’s a different model than what Trump envisioned last November, when he said the government efficiency commission would advise, but not be part of the federal government.

Trump’s executive order rebrands the U.S. Digital Service, a team of tech and design consultants within the White House, as the “United States DOGE Service.” The Obama administration launched USDS in 2013 following the troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov.

Within USDS, the Trump administration will create a “U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization” that will disband on July 4, 2026 — a deadline already set by DOGE head Elon Musk.

The American Federation of Government Employees, along with the nonprofits Public Citizen and State Democracy Defenders Fund, filed a lawsuit against Trump and the Office of Management and Budget just minutes after Trump was sworn into office for a second term.

The lawsuit claims Trump and OMB violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, because DOGE members “do not have a fair balance of viewpoints,” its meetings are held behind closed doors and records from those meetings are not available to the public.

“While FACA permits the use of advisory committees, it imposes various guardrails to prevent them from turning into vehicles for advancing private interests in the federal decision-making process and secretly influencing federal officials’ exercise of policymaking discretion,” the lawsuit states.

Trump said in November that DOGE will provide “advice and guidance from outside of government,” while “partnering with the White House Office of Management and Budget to drive large scale structural reform.”

The lawsuit also underscores potential conflicts of interest for DOGE leaders. Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, a company that holds billions of dollars in federal contracts, and is also the CEO of electronic vehicle manufacturer Tesla.

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