Trump reportedly backs Vivek Ramaswamy taking JD Vance’s Ohio Senate seat

2R918P7 Vivek Ramaswamy, businessman and best selling author, a candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the US, makes remarks at the 2023 Faith and Freedom Coalitiona??s Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Washington, DC on Friday, June 23, 2023. Credit: Ron Sachs/CNP

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President Donald Trump reportedly supports former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to take Vice President-elect JD Vance’s Ohio Senate seat.

The news was first reported in an account from The Washington Post on Wednesday.

I’m looking for someone who really knows Ohio, who understands this state, someone who has experience, someone frankly, who is a hard worker,” Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said.

DeWine is authorized to appoint a new senator who will serve until the 2026 election. He is expected to announce his selection next week following the inauguration.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted has been the candidate most discussed for the role in previous reports, but DOGE co-leader Ramaswamy previously signaled that he is open to serving.

However, upon taking the Department of Government Efficiency role, it appeared Ramaswamy was ending his consideration for the Senate seat, writing on X in November, “this means I’m withdrawing myself from consideration for the pending Senate appointment in Ohio. Whoever Governor DeWine appoints to JD’s seat has some big shoes to fill. I will help them however I can.”

Elon Musk and Ramaswamy also recently announced that they are starting a weekly podcast to discuss their efforts with DOGE.

“We want to bring the public along with us, to lift the curtain, to take us behind the scenes of what actually that waste, fraud, and abuse in government looks like,” Ramaswamy said in a video posted to X.

“However bad you think it is, it’s probably worse. But we don’t want to do this to just expose the problem. We want to do it to solve the problem,” he added.

The House Oversight Committee plans to create a subcommittee to root out government waste and lead President Donald Trump’s efficiency crusade. 

According to Fox News, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is expected to create a subcommittee to work alongside the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The efficiency panel created by Trump is headed up by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will serve as outside volunteers and not federal officials. 

The Hill reported that this efficiency panel will identify thousands of regulations for Trump to eliminate. The pair laid out their plans in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing, “The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions, and cost savings.”

They also wrote, “We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.” 

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