Inside 24 hours of centibillionaire Elon Musk utilizing his X platform to upend a congressional funding bill and push the federal authorities to the brink of a shutdown, three GOP lawmakers are actually calling for him to be named Speaker of the Home.
On Thursday, Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, was the primary to drift the concept, in a publish on Musk’s personal X platform. “The Speaker of the Home needn’t be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp greater than electing Elon Musk.”
Senator Mike Lee from Utah additionally endorsed Musk as Speaker, although he added that he would even be proud of Vivek Ramaswamy taking over the position, he told right-wing talk show host Benny Johnson, “Allow them to select one in every of them, I do not care which one, to be their Speaker,” Lee mentioned. “That might revolutionize all the things, it will break up the agency.”
Paul’s suggestion was rapidly picked up by one other far-right elected official when Marjorie Taylor Greene, a consultant from Georgia, wrote on X, “I’d be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the Home. DOGE can solely really be achieved by reigning [sic] in Congress to enact actual authorities effectivity. The institution must be shattered identical to it was yesterday. This might be the best way.”
Greene was referring to Musk’s role in killing a bipartisan government funding deal that present Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson spent months negotiating with Republicans and Democrats. Regardless of president-elect Trump and his workforce not objecting to the deal, according to Politico, Musk started a marketing campaign on X on Wednesday to blow the deal out of the water, posting about it greater than 100 occasions.
Finally, Trump and vice chairman–elect JD Vance issued a lengthy statement on X calling the deal a “betrayal of our nation” and urging Republican lawmakers to reject the deal—which they did.
What comes subsequent is unclear. If a deal isn’t reached by Friday, federal employees will cease receiving paychecks, and enormous elements of the federal government will briefly cease working. However with Democrats saying they have little interest in returning to the negotiating desk, and Johnson having already ruled out raising the debt ceiling, which Trump is demanding, there isn’t any apparent path to a viable invoice, a lot much less one Musk approves of.
