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Rep. Marjorie Greene is Open to Elon Musk Being Speaker of the House.

Let’s consider that nightmare for a second.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readDec 20, 2024
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While it’s easy to despise billionaires in general, I have to admit there are few who I despise more than Elon Musk. Granted, there aren’t many who are as public and well known as him, and maybe that’s why no one is a better indication of how much is wrong with our system today. It’s almost as though the man is proud to be the face of everything that’s at the root cause of all our problems, and now he gets a position working with the federal government and the Trump administration as a reward.

Of course, it should come as no surprise that none other than Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is open to the idea of Musk being the Speaker of the House.

Ashleigh Fields with The Hill writes:

“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday she would be open to supporting Elon Musk for House Speaker, an idea proposed by other Republicans as Congress faces a government shutdown Friday night.

Musk railed against the continuing resolution (CR) negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) throughout Wednesday, helping tank the bill. Johnson is now considering alternative plans with less than two days until government funding runs out and with President-elect

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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