GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House

Billionaire Elon Musk uses his X platform in 24 hours Overturn congressional appropriations bill And pushing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown, three Republican lawmakers are now calling for his appointment as House speaker.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the first to float the idea in a post on Musk’s own X platform on Thursday. "The Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress," Paul wrote. “Nothing disturbs the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.”

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, also endorsed Musk for speaker, though he added that he, too, was pleased to have Vivek Ramaswamy take the position. he told right-wing talk show host Benny Johnson“Let them choose one of them, I don’t care which one, to be their speaker,” Lee said. “It’s going to completely change everything, it’s going to dissolve the company.”

Paul’s advice was quickly adopted by another far-right elected official, when Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said: write on X“I would like to support @elonmusk as Speaker of the House. DOGE can only be achieved through governance [sic] Congress enacts real government efficiency. This institution needs to be crushed like it was yesterday. This may be the way to go.

Green refers to Musk’s role in killing bipartisan government funding deal Current House Speaker Mike Johnson has spent months negotiating with Republicans and Democrats. Although President-elect Trump and his team do not oppose the agreement, According to PoliticoMusk launched a campaign on X on Wednesday to try to kill the deal, Post a message About it more than 100 times.

Ultimately, Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance Made a lengthy statement about X called the deal a “betrayal of our country” and urged Republican lawmakers to reject it — which they did.

What happens next is unclear. If a deal is not reached by Friday, federal workers will stop receiving paychecks and much of the government will temporarily cease operations. But with Democrats say they have little interest Back to the table, Johnson Raising the debt ceiling has been ruled outThat’s despite the fact that there’s no obvious viable path forward for the legislation Trump is demanding, let alone one that Musk would approve.