Republicans want to give this powerful government position to Elon Musk to ‘disrupt the swamp’

Republican Rand Paul has suggested that controversial right-wing billionaire, Elon Musk, be appointed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

The Speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House and is also its presiding officer.

The US Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be a current member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker in the past has been. The Constitution’s only requirement for the Speaker of the House is that the person is chosen by the House of Representatives. So, Musk could do it.

The 61-year-old US senator joined a variety of extreme-right Republican representatives to recommend the owner of X/Twitter for the position following the threat of a government shutdown.

“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote in

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