Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) advised Elon Musk function Speaker in a Thursday morning put up on X following contentious debates over the persevering with decision (CR).
“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . . ,” Paul wrote.
“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’ minds).”
Later Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) stated she can be open to supporting Musk to switch Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a put up quoting Paul.
“I’d be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House. DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency,” Greene wrote on X.
“The establishment needs to be shattered just like it was yesterday. This could be the way,” she added.
Musk is the co-leader of President-elect Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), an advisory panel targeted on slicing spending and the dimensions of the federal authorities.
He and fellow DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy helped drive a wave of opposition to a bipartisan spending deal Wednesday, in the end ending in Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance urging Republicans to oppose the measure.
A number of Democrats criticized Musk and claimed he, not Trump, was driving the president-elect’s place.
“It’s one thing when you have Donald Trump governing by tweet, as he did in his first term, where he was in communication with Congress, but now you have Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, governing by tweet,” Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman (N.Y.) stated Wednesday on CNN’s “AC360.”
“This is absurd,” he added.
The Speaker just isn’t required to be an elected member of the Home, and elected officers have flirted with the concept of appointing a Congressional outsider up to now.
In 2015, former Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell to carry the management position unsuccessfully.
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