The Republican presidential candidate has praised the world’s richest man for his takeover of Twitter, now called X.
Vivek Ramaswamy has previously praised Elon Musk’s takeover of X, which involved laying off a substantial number of employees, as emblematic of his approach to slimming the federal bureaucracy. | Francis Chung/POLITICORepublican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested he could pick Elon Musk as a potential advisor in the White House if he won the 2024 election.
“I’ve enjoyed getting to know better Elon Musk recently, I expect him to be an interesting advisor of mine,” he said during an Iowa campaign event Friday,The biotech entrepreneur has previously praised Musk’s takeover of X — formerly known as Twitter — which involved laying off a substantial number of employees, as emblematic of his approach to slimming the federal bureaucracy.
“What he did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state,” he told Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Aug. 18. “Take out 75 percent of the dead weight cost. Improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do.”
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