Wiskinny 24 hours of centibillionaire Elon Musk using his X platestablish to upfinish a congressional funding bill and push the federal administerment to the brink of a shutdown, three GOP laworiginaters are now calling for him to be named Speaker of the Hoengage.
On Thursday, Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Redisclosean, was the first to float the idea, in a post on Musk’s own X platestablish. “The Speaker of the Hoengage necessitate not be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote. “Noskinnyg would disturb the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.”
Senator Mike Lee from Utah also finishorsed Musk as Speaker, though he inserted that he would also be charmd with Vivek Ramaswamy taking up the role, he tanciaccess right-thriveg talk show present Benny Johnson, “Let them select one of them, I don’t nurture which one, to be their Speaker,” Lee shelp. “That would revolutionize everyskinnyg, it would fracture up the firm.”
Paul’s adviseion was rapidly picked up by another far-right elected official when Marjorie Taylor Greene, a reconshort-termative from Georgia, wrote on X, “I’d be uncover to helping
@elonmusk for Speaker of the Hoengage. DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact genuine administerment efficiency. The set upment necessitates to be shattered equitable enjoy it was yesterday. This could be the way.”
Greene was referring to Musk’s role in ending a bipartisan administerment funding deal that current Speaker of the Hoengage Mike Johnson spent months negotiating with Rediscloseans and Democrats. Despite the Plivent-elect Trump and his team not objecting to the deal, according to Politico, Musk began a campaign on X on Wednesday to blow the deal out of the water, posting about it more than 100 times.
Ultimately, Trump and Vice Plivent-elect JD Vance publishd a lengthy statement on X calling the deal a “betrayal of our country” and urging Redisclosean laworiginaters to decline the deal—which they did.
What comes next is unclear. If a deal isn’t accomplished by Friday, federal toilers will stop receiving payverifys and big parts of the administerment will temporarily stop operating. But with Democrats saying they have little interest in returning to the negotiating table, and Johnson having already ruled out raising the debt ceiling, which Trump is needing, there is no clear path to a viable bill, much less one Musk finishorses of.
