Vivek Ramaswamy could withdraw from the Department of Government Efficiency as he is all set to formally announce by the last week in January his bid for the OPhion governor, a Politico report said citing a person close to the matter. On Saturday, Ramaswamy showed up at an all-hands meeting at the SpaceX headquarters in Washington where Elon Musk was not present. As of now, Elon Musk is focused on the big picture things of DOGE while Ramaswamy is focused on deregulation. The rest of the staff will focus on implementation.
Steve Davis, Musk’s right-hand gentleman at SpaceX, works as his DOGE commander, while Brad Smith, a medical businessman and Rhodes Scholar, is Ramaswamy’s major point of contact.
Thus far, DOGE has been mysterious about its discussions, they conduct their business over Signal, the encrypted messaging software and the actual meetings take place at SpaceX’s Washington practices.
By the time Expand is expected to finish its work, the Ohio government vote is scheduled for November 2026, because DOGE’s mandate is time-bound and is for a season. Finding$ 2 trillion in spending reductions has been assigned to DOGE. By July 4, 2026, DOGE is expected to submit its advice.
Vivek Ramaswamy was first being considered for a seat in the Ohio Senate, but finally Ohio governor Mike DeWine chose to replace him with Jon Husted otherwise. This apparently accelerated Ramaswamy’s choice to battle for the governor election.
Personally, some in Trump’s universe see Ramaswamy’s emerging general plan as a way to clear a path for Musk to do his own job at the company without him, the Politico report said.
” Elon generally runs the show”, said an informal adviser to Trump. This man added,” Time is their biggest enemy. We’ll see”.
Musk has previously dialed up expectations. ” I think we’ll try for$ 2 trillion ]in savings], I think that’s like the best-case outcome”, Musk recently told Stagwell CEO Mark Penn, the former adviser to Bill Clinton. However, I do believe you might have to have some excess. If you try for two trillion, you have a great chance at getting one”.
