You have to be a natural-born U.S. citizen above the age of 35 to be elected president of the United States.

You have to be a member of the United States Senate to be elected Senate majority leader.

But you do not have to be a member of the House of Representatives or even a natural-born U.S. citizen to be speaker of the House.

Members of the House can vote for whomever they want inside or outside of the government to be their speaker.

And Republicans are now toying with the idea of using that strange little quirk in the U.S. Constitution

to hand control of the lower chamber of the United States Congress to the richest man in the world. Elon Musk.

On the wall, unless I'm just mistaken, it seems to me that new leadership in the House is

almost inevitable. Given that they all have expressed such affection for Vivek and for Elon,

let them choose one of them. I don't care which one to be their

speaker. That would revolutionize everything. Elon Musk is a successful businessman. If he was

speaker, I think he would do a great job. But it's a different world up here. And I think I just

applaud him for spending his time and effort. And he's a brilliant guy, and that would make it interesting.

Those are Republican elected officials seriously proposing Elon Musk as the next speaker of the House.

Yesterday, Musk almost single-handedly blew up bipartisan budget negotiations in the House and has literally

brought the country to the brink of a government shutdown. Musk tweeted over 100 times railing

against the deal, often using false or misleading claims about what was actually in the bill

to keep the government open. And shortly thereafter, Donald Trump

and J.D. Vance released a joint statement saying that they now also oppose the deal. Today, the current

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, spent the day in damage control mode, trying to cobble together

a new budget deal to replace the one that Elon Musk killed.

A few hours ago, Speaker Johnson released a new government funding proposal that looked

somewhat like the old government funding proposal, except that some key provisions had been

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