Inside 24 hours of centibillionaire Elon Musk utilizing his X platform to upend a congressional funding invoice 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 submit 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 informed right-wing speak present host Benny Johnson, “Allow them to select considered one of them, I do not care which one, to be their Speaker,” Lee mentioned. “That may revolutionize the whole lot, it could 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 actually 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 way in which.”
Greene was referring to Musk’s position in killing a bipartisan authorities funding deal that present Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson spent months negotiating with Republicans and Democrats. Regardless of president-elect Trump and his staff not objecting to the deal, in accordance with 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.
In the end, Trump and vice chairman–elect JD Vance issued a prolonged assertion 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 components of the federal government will quickly cease working. However with Democrats saying they’ve little curiosity in returning to the negotiating desk, and Johnson having already dominated out elevating the debt ceiling, which Trump is demanding, there is no such thing as a apparent path to a viable invoice, a lot much less one Musk approves of.
