GOP leaders including Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Marjorie Taylor Green are proposing Tesla founder Elon Musk replace Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House following the release of Johnson's widely criticized spending bill.
Johnson's Continuing Resolution, aimed at averting a government shutdown on Friday, has become the subject of Republican ire. The House Freedom Caucus dubbed the 1,500 document the "Cramnibus" bill.
On Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on X that she would be open to supporting Elon Musk for Speaker of the House.
I’d be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2024
DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency.
The establishment needs to be shattered just like it was yesterday.
This could be the way. https://t.co/8YuL56e443
"DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency. The establishment needs to be shattered just like it was yesterday. This could be the way," the lawmaker wrote.
Later on Thursday, Taylor Greene posted a poll on X asking followers if they'd support Musk for Speaker of the House.
Would you support @elonmusk for Speaker of the House?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2024
The House controls policy and appropriations (spending) and can cut programs, departments, agencies, as well as make new laws like term limits and pass a balanced budget amendment.
DOGE could become the legislative branch.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul used X on Thursday to voice his support for the Tesla founder as Speaker of the House.
"The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress," Paul wrote.
The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 19, 2024
Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’…
"Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk," he continued.
Also on Thursday, in an interview on the Benny Show Podcast, an independent news show, Utah Senator Mike Lee suggested Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy would be preferable to Johnson. "The DOGE movement is enormously popular in the house," Lee said to explain his supposition. "They all have expressed such affection for Vivek or Elon. Let them choose one of them," he continued.
Mike Lee calls for Vivek Ramaswamy or Elon Musk to be the next Speaker of the House pic.twitter.com/orFWNdFnhA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 19, 2024
Like Paul, Lee highlighted the fact that the Speaker of the House does not need to be a member of Congress.
If Johnson is ousted, he will become the second Speaker of the House in history to be removed from the role. In October 2023, Republican Senator Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker of the House in a shock vote where members of his own party turned against him.
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