President-elect Donald Trump picked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new commission on cutting government spending and regulation.

Ramaswamy is a suburban Columbus entrepreneur and former presidential candidate who grew up in the Cincinnati area.

Campaign mega-donor Elon Musk and former Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the new department, nicknamed “DOGE.”

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named a former White House aide to serve as counsel to an effort co-led by Elon Musk to slash government regulations and the workforce.

The enormous spending from the world’s richest man quietly fueled allied groups and was revealed only now, as Musk plays a key role in the transition.

Elon Musk plowed at least $260 million into efforts to send Donald Trump back to the White House, new filings show – a massive infusion that makes him one of the largest single political underwriters of a presidential campaign and underscores the outsized influence of the world’s wealthiest person on this year’s election.

Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went to Capitol Hill. Billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy met on Thursday with Republican lawmakers whose support they will need to win the sweeping spending cuts that President-elect Donald Trump has asked them to find.