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{"id":3864,"date":"2024-12-19T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-floats-musk-for-speaker\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:48:46","slug":"rand-paul-floats-musk-for-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-floats-musk-for-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul floats Musk for speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is floating the ultimate Washington outsider to be speaker: Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,\u201d Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/randpaul\/status\/1869723449377030385?s=46&amp;t=fTGk6sZryy_OKPqENNM_hA\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a post on Musk\u2019s X platform<\/a>. \u201cNothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing\u2019s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka \u2018uniparty,\u2019 lose their ever-lovin\u2019 minds).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unconventional suggestion from one of the least conventional senators comes as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) works to tamp down an outright conservative rebellion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/18\/congress\/trumps-spending-demands-meet-reality-00195241\" target=\"_blank\">over his rejected short-term government funding patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump and Musk on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/johnsons-spending-gop-problems-2025-00195216\" target=\"_blank\">called for Republicans to reject the Johnson-negotiated spending legislation<\/a> \u2014 with several rank-and-file members publicly airing skepticism about Johnson continuing on as speaker in next Congress, even despite Trump\u2019s backing.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are expected to meet Thursday to discuss next steps on how to fund the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is floating the ultimate Washington outsider to be speaker: Elon Musk. \u201cThe Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,\u201d Paul wrote in a post on Musk\u2019s X platform. \u201cNothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}