GOP lawmakers want Elon Musk to be speaker of the House

Centi-billionaire Elon Musk using the X platform in 24 hours Change the Congressional funding bill and three GOP lawmakers who pushed the federal government to the brink of a shutdown are now calling for him to be elected House speaker.

On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, first floated the idea in a post on Musk’s own X platform. “The Speaker of the House should not be a member of Congress” Paul wrote. “Nothing breaks the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.”

While Sen. Mike Lee of Utah also endorsed Musk as speaker, he added that he would be happy to have Vivek Ramaswamy take over as well. he told right-wing talk show host Benny Johnson“Let them choose one of them, I don’t care which one is their Speaker,” he said. “It’s going to revolutionize everything, it’s going to break up the firm.”

Paul’s proposal was quickly picked up by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, another far-right elected official. He wrote in X“I stand ready to support @elonmusk for Speaker of the House. DOGE can only be exercised (sic) by dominating Congress to enforce the efficiency of true government. The structure must be smashed like it was yesterday. This can be the way.”

Greene meant Musk’s role in killing a bipartisan government funding deal The current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has been negotiating with Republicans and Democrats for months. Although President-elect Trump and his team did not object to the deal, According to PoliticoMusk launched the X campaign on Wednesday to blow the deal out of the water, placement more than 100 times about it.

Finally, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance He made a long statement about X called the deal “a betrayal of our country” and urged Republican lawmakers to reject the deal.

It is unclear what will happen next. If no deal is reached by Friday, federal workers will stop getting paid and a large part of the government will temporarily shut down. But with Democrats say they have little interest Back at the negotiating table and there’s Johnson already ruled out raising the debt ceilingThere is no clear path to a bill that Trump has called for, much less one that Musk has approved.