Vivek Ramaswamy Gets His Wish: 'The Bill Should Fail'

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President-elect Donald Trump has picked tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, along with Elon Musk, to head a new agency to be called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

With his new role in mind, Ramaswamy apparently decided to actually read the 1,500 plus page emergency stopgap spending deal Congress is trying to ram through without most knowing that's in it.

His takeaway?

Vivek Ramaswamy is adamantly against this bill.

And late Wednesday night... he got his wish.

The bill is DEAD.

Ramaswamy laid out his case in full on X Wednesday.

In fact, Ramaswamy said that any Republicans who are actually “serious about government efficiency” must vote against this measure, saying it was “full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways and pork barrel politics."

“The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may ‘feel good’ today, but it’s like showering cocaine on an addict: it’s not compassion, it’s cruelty,” Ramaswamy wrote on X.

His DOGE partner, Elon Musk, agreed with him.

Musk said on Tuesday night that the “bill should not pass," calling it a big “piece of pork.”

Then Musk said it again.

And again, even more emphatically.

The opposition to the bill from both men came after they spoke with Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who originally supported the bill.

But many Republican critics blasted it.

Loudly.

The text of this bill was released mere days before the December 20th shutdown deadline.

Ramaswamy called doing that an intentional tactic, saying that the time was “manufactured and designed to avoid serious public debate."

Ramaswamy went into deeper detail on X.

“The true cost of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new spending. Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year: ~$130BN. Disaster relief: $100BN. Stimulus for farmers: $10BN. The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement: $8BN,” Ramaswamy wrote. “The proposal adds at least 65 cents of new spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending.”

“Farmers will see more land sold to foreign buyers when taxes inevitably rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item in our national budget,” he added.

He also said this 1,500 plus page bill could have "easily" been under 20 pages.

Ramaswamy wrote, “Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill. There’s no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by a lame-duck Congress.”

“Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller & more streamlined federal government, but actions speak louder than words," he continued.

"This is an early test. The bill should fail,” Ramaswamy finished.

AND IT DID!