Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy did not become so very rich by adding pork and nonsense to their wealth.

You're kidding, right? Elon Musk? The guy who got super rich by having lots of frivolities like selling flamethrowers, launching a Roadster into space, making a cologne with the odor of burnt hair, diversions into solar roofs, beer steins and belt buckles, his Boring tunnel projects, fart noises in the Tesla infotainment system?

There's lots of stuff that his companies do that's ripe for ridicule as "nonsense." If any of the above were a federal program, conservatives would be listing them all as pork and nonsense. But sometimes things that seem nonsensical actually serve a purpose, as I'm sure Musk would argue some of those efforts did. And some of them are just indulging Musk's whimsy. In a private company, Musk gets to decide what purposes get served by his enterprise. In government, there are lots and lots of elected representatives that make those decisions - and lots of compromises (and disagreements) over what purposes to serve.