GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House

Within 24 hours of centibillionaire Elon Musk utilizing his X level to upend a legislature backing bill and propulsion the national authorities to the brink of a shutdown, 3 GOP lawmakers are present calling for him to beryllium named Speaker of the House.

On Thursday, Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, was the archetypal to interval the idea, successful a station connected Musk’s ain X platform. “The Speaker of the House request not beryllium a subordinate of Congress,” Paul wrote. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp much than electing Elon Musk.”

Senator Mike Lee from Utah besides endorsed Musk arsenic Speaker, though helium added that helium would besides beryllium blessed with Vivek Ramaswamy taking up the role, he told right-wing speech amusement big Benny Johnson, “Let them take 1 of them, I don't attraction which one, to beryllium their Speaker,” Lee said. “That would revolutionize everything, it would interruption up the firm.”

Paul’s proposition was rapidly picked up by different far-right elected authoritative erstwhile Marjorie Taylor Greene, a typical from Georgia, wrote connected X, “I’d beryllium unfastened to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House. DOGE tin lone genuinely beryllium accomplished by reigning [sic] successful Congress to enact existent authorities efficiency. The constitution needs to beryllium shattered conscionable similar it was yesterday. This could beryllium the way.”

Greene was referring to Musk's relation successful sidesplitting a bipartisan authorities backing deal that existent Speaker of the House Mike Johnson spent months negotiating with Republicans and Democrats. Despite president-elect Trump and his squad not objecting to the deal, according to Politico, Musk began a run connected X connected Wednesday to stroke the woody retired of the water, posting astir it much than 100 times.

Ultimately, Trump and vice president–elect JD Vance issued a lengthy connection connected X calling the woody a “betrayal of our country” and urging Republican lawmakers to cull the deal—which they did.

What comes adjacent is unclear. If a woody isn’t reached by Friday, national workers volition halt receiving paychecks, and ample parts of the authorities volition temporarily halt operating. But with Democrats saying they person small interest successful returning to the negotiating table, and Johnson having already ruled retired raising the indebtedness ceiling, which Trump is demanding, determination is nary evident way to a viable bill, overmuch little 1 Musk approves of.