Vivek Ramaswamy, the Indian-origin “millennial Trump” who will remake the US government with Elon Musk
last year, businessman Vivek Ramaswami (Ohio, 1985) was one of Donald Trump’s main rivals for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Next year, he will be one of your trusted people and an important part of your This is the new administration.
This was announced by the newly elected President on Tuesday. Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswami They will be in charge of dictating in which name the person is baptized Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, in English). Trump, in a statement, said this would be the “Manhattan Project” of this era, bringing about “drastic changes” across the government with major cuts to government agencies that he says are “bloated into a federal bureaucracy.”
good relationships are well known between trump and muskAs the founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of the X Platform, he has supported the Republican politically and financially throughout his campaign. But why did Trump choose Ramasyami?
Ramaswamy, 39, was born in Cincinnati to an Indian immigrant family. he graduated from Harvard University in biology and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Has received the title of. Then, he started accumulating his fortune by investing biotechnology sector,
In Established my own company in 2014Roivant Sciences, which purchases patents from pharmaceutical companies that have not yet been developed or marketed or acquires experimental drugs from other companies that do not have the resources to finance clinical trials. He later founded several others, like axoventFocused on treatment of neurological diseases.
His investments have allowed him to make a lot of money over $950 millionaccording to the magazine forbes At the end of 2023. In July last year, before the stock market shock, his wealth exceeded the limit 1 billion dollarsHas made a place among the 20 youngest billionaires USA.
Vivek Ramaswamy with Donald Trump at a campaign event.
leap into politics
Due to his career in the business world, Ramaswamy has been dubbed the “Millennial Trump”. also for your financial visionWhich he captured and released in 2021 in a book titled Voke Inc.Where he explained his ideas about capitalism and how the advent of the free market lifted many people out of poverty.
Perhaps that’s why no one was surprised that in 2023 he decided to challenge the former president in the Republican race for the White House. He was a candidate for a few months Youngest Republican defeats Florida governor in internal party election Ron DeSantis, 44 years old. But eventually he decided to quit his job and become Trump’s ardent follower.
At several rallies at which he has come to replace the Republican leader, he has repeated Trump’s favorite phrases and has defended theories of election fraud. Similarly, his message focuses on defending cutbacks in government. For example, according to BBCProposed abolishing the Department of Education and the FBI. Needless to mention that he insisted on using scissors in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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