Elon Musk is making his presence felt in Washington, D.C.
That’s bad news for the establishment.
And Elon Musk may take one new job that has the Washington, D.C. Swamp in panic mode.
Elon Musk leads revolt against the Swamp’s spending sellout
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R LA) tried to muscle a 1,500-page spending bill through Congress.
The bill added more than $300 billion in new spending, funded Joe Biden’s online censorship regime, and shielded members of the January 6 Commission from prosecution.
Musk called the bill criminal and declared that it must fail.
70 posts on X later, Musk whipped up enough public opposition to the bill that Johnson beat a humiliating retreat and pulled the bill.
Johnson’s failure to move this bill called into question his ability to survive a Speaker’s election on January 3.
Due to the narrow nature of the GOP majority, Johnson can only afford to lose one vote.
Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie is already on record as opposing Johnson after Johnson stabbed conservatives in the bank to support a $105 billion slush fund that handed Joe Biden another $61 billion in funding for the war in Ukraine.
The Speaker of the House doesn’t actually have to be a member of the House of Representatives.
That was a fact Kentucky Senator Rand Paul reminded Americans of when he suggested Republicans elect Elon Musk as the Speaker of the House since he is the only one apparently serious about cutting spending.
“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’ minds),” Paul wrote on X.
Johnson losing a Speaker’s election is a real possibility.
Donald Trump’s team is furious that Johnson tried to restrict Trump’s ability to enact his agenda in the first year of his second term by caving into Democrats on a deal that locked in funding for Joe Biden’s agenda.
“Multiple House conservatives, as well as Trump advisers and other people close to the incoming president, indicate Johnson’s hold on the speakership is far from stable just as Republicans are about to take control of the House, Senate and White House. One Trump adviser, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said Johnson could salvage the relationship by ‘doing what Trump wants.’ But another said that Trump wasn’t ‘protecting him’ and not to be fooled by the president-elect’s publicly kind remarks,” POLITICO exclusively reported.
And in an ominous sign for Johnson, a Trump advisor told POLITICO that if someone challenged Johnson in the Speaker’s election Trump wouldn’t act to save Johnson.
“If somebody challenged Johnson, you’re not going to get any pushback,” the Trump advisor revealed. “Which means he won’t save him if he’s in trouble.”
