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In 24 hours from centibillionaire Elon Musk using his platform X for announce a congressional funding bill and pushing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown, three GOP lawmakers are now calling for him to be named Speaker of the House.
On Thursday, Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, was the first to float the idea, in a post on Musk’s X platform. “The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote. “Nothing will stir the swamp more than the election of Elon Musk.”
Senator Mike Lee from Utah also endorsed Musk as Speaker, although he added that he was also happy that Vivek Ramaswamy took the role. he told right-wing talk show host Benny Johnson“Let them choose one of them, I don’t care who, to be their Speaker,” said Lee. “That would revolutionize everything, it would break the company.”
Paul’s suggestion was quickly picked up by another far-right elected official when Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative from Georgia, wrote about X“I would be open to support @elonmusk for Speaker of the House. DOGE can only really be carried out by the ruler (sic) in Congress to enact true government efficiency. The establishment must be destroyed as it was yesterday. This could be the way.”
Greene was referring Musk’s role in killing a bipartisan government funding deal current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has spent months negotiating with Republicans and Democrats. Despite President-elect Trump and his team not opposing the deal, according to PoliticoMusk started a campaign on X on Wednesday to blow the deal out of the water, place about more than 100 times.
Ultimately, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance published a long statement about X calling the deal a “betrayal of our country” and urging Republican lawmakers to reject the deal — which they did.
What comes next is unclear. If an agreement is not reached by Friday, federal workers will stop receiving paychecks, and a large part of the government will temporarily stop operating. But with Democrats say they have little interest to return to the negotiating table, and Johnson have he has already decided to raise the debt ceilingthat Trump is demanding, there is no obvious path to a viable bill, much less one that Musk approves of.
