Elon Musk has publicly advocated for his own appointment as Speaker of the House, capitalizing on the recent collapse of a Republican-led spending bill. The bill, criticized for excessive earmarks and mishandled negotiations, sparked outrage among Republican lawmakers, leading to calls for House Speaker Mike Johnson's removal. Musk's suggestion, while seemingly outlandish, reflects the deep dissatisfaction within the Republican party and the potential for significant upheaval in House leadership.
Musk, President-elect Donald Trump’s chief to cut government waste, successfully placed tremendous pressure on Republican House leadership to scrap Wednesday’s spending measure in a series of X posts. House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democrats filled the continuing resolution with a large amount of pork that mirrored an omnibus bill, Breitbart News’s Bradley Jaye Johnson’s 1,547-page year-end spending deal, released Tuesday night after days of extended deadlines, fell apart in less than 24 hours as Republicans of all ideological stripes turned on the bill over its contents and Johnson’s mishandling of negotiations and the rollout.
Conservatives, moderates, loyal rank-and-file Republicans, and even a committee chairman savaged the bill for giving far too much to Democrats. President-elect Donald Trump and soon-to-be Vice President JD Vance released a statement Thursday afternoon urging Republicans to pursue a clean continuing resolution with only an add-on addressing the debt ceiling.“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul posted on X. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing’s impossible. .” Rep. Thomas Massie already said he wouldn’t back Johnson for speaker. Massie had been leaning that way but said this latest CR debacle was a “tipping point.” And we hear from multiple sources there are more Republicans – at least two – who are in Massie’s camp. Some Johnson critics are already privately floating names behind the scenes of alternatives they’d prefer for speaker, such as House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan or House Majority Whip Tom Emmer. Jordan and Emmer both ran for speaker after the conference ousted Kevin McCarthy. They both lost. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise could also be in the mix. Arizona GOP Rep. Eli Crane told us he was “undecided” about voting for Johnson and confirmed there’s talk behind the scenes about a potential alternative. Rep. Paul Gosar is leaning “no,” we’re told. Reps. Eric Burlison , Andy Ogles and Cory Mills have been non-committal. Rep. Victoria Spartz is always a wild card. Trump provided a path on Thursday for Johnson to save his job as speaker in the next Congress. Trump’s roadmap for Johnson appears to set a series of reasonable demands, although achieving Trump’s requests might be difficult to achieve in the context of a potential government shutdown before Christmas. Johnson will “easily remain speaker” if he “acts decisively and tough” and eliminates “all of the traps being set by Democrats” in the spending package, Trump Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell onJosh Hawley: Speaker Johnson’s Spending Bill Is ‘Hugely Harmful' to TrumpReport: Mike Johnson Cancels Appearance at Turning Point EventTrump: We’re Going to Knock Out the PBM Middlemen, Get Drug Costs DownFar-Left ACLU Advising Cities, States on How to Help Illegals Evade DeportationBill Clinton’s Memoir Attacks Peter Schweizer, Tries to Spin Hillary’s Russian Uranium Deal Exclusive—Peter Schweizer: Bill Clinton’s Memoir Is Riddled with Errors as the Great Truth Bender from Arkansas Attempts to Rewrite History…Again Oklahoma Executes Man Who Murdered and Nearly Beheaded 10-Year-Old Girl as Part of ‘Cannibalistic Fantasy’
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