NEW: Top Republicans Float Elon Musk As Speaker Of The House

With House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the ropes, the MAGA movement is floating a trial balloon for Elon Musk, teasing President-elect Donald Trump with the image of a fully compliant leader who won’t cut deals with Democrats.

Over the past 24 hours, Musk has been on a digital rampage against Johnson’s stopgap spending measure, one that conservatives have decried as a pork-laden appeasement effort to garner Democratic votes in the face of Republican obstructionism. “This bill should not pass,” Musk declared in a post on X Tuesday. He has since upped the ante on members of Congress, warning them to watch their right flanks if they don’t join President-elect Trump in seeking to kill the bill. For his effort, Musk should be rewarded, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) declared one day later.

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“I’d be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House,” she suggested in her own post responding to one by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). “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.” Her comments came after Paul noted that the Constitution does not require the House speaker to be a member of Congress. “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,” he wrote.

The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .  

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’…

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 19, 2024

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.

The establishment needs to be shattered just like it was yesterday.

This could be the way. https://t.co/8YuL56e443

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2024

President-elect Trump weighed in on Truth Social in a statement Wednesday where he demanded Republicans hold firm and pass a “streamlined funding bill” that doesn’t give concessions away to Democrats to secure their votes. “Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and [President Joe] Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief,” Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said in a joint statement. He followed up on those remarks with an appearance on Fox News Thursday morning, where he promised to support Johnson as the speaker if he “acts decisively” to end the impasse on conservative terms.

“Anybody that supports a bill that doesn’t take care of the Democrat quicksand known as the debt ceiling should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “If the speaker acts decisively, and tough, and gets rid of all of the traps being set by the Democrats, which will economically and, in other ways, destroy our country, he will easily remain speaker.”

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