Failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was hit with severe pushback on Sunday after railing against "the unelected federal bureaucracy" on social media.
Donald Trump appointed Ramaswamy, who lost the GOP primary against the current president-elect, to help run a new group called the Department of Governmental Efficiency, or simply, DOGE.
On Sunday, Ramaswamy took to social media to say, "The real 'threat to our democracy' is the unelected federal bureaucracy."
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David Sirota, founder, owner, and editor-in-chief of The Lever, said, "You have already launched and are reportedly staffing a department of the United States government that has never actually been created or authorized by any statute enacted by the democratically elected Congress of the United States."
Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen chimed in, "Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat."
A popular satire account portraying the fictional News Night field producer Maggie Jordan said, "Not only is Vivek an unelected bureaucrat, the public had a chance to vote for him and they *overwhelmingly* chose not to elect him."
"Best. Self. Own. Ever," the account wrote Sunday.
Nishant Mehta, a scientist at Arsenal Bio, said, "Vivek is literally an unelected bureaucrat."
Bestselling author Claude Bouchard asked, "You mean like the unelected bureaucrat position you will hold?"
Filmmaker Matthew Cooke told Ramaswamy, "Nobody elected you."
You have already launched and are reportedly staffing a department of the United States government that has never actually been created or authorized by any statute enacted by the democratically elected Congress of the United States. https://t.co/0ALyPbl9Kn
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 1, 2024