The GOP House Speaker referenced speculation about his future and the outsized influence Musk appeared to wield this week.

Some Republicans are daydreaming over the prospect of billionaire guru and occasional literal flamethrower Elon Musk clinching the speaker’s gavel in the wake of a revolt against House GOP ...

Elon Musk has a 3 percent chance of becoming speaker of the House of Representatives, according to online betting website Polymarket. Calls for Musk to take up the top job in Congress emerged this ...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has thrown her weight behind Senator Rand Paul’s ridiculous proposal that Elon Musk be elected the speaker of the House of Representatives. “The Speaker ...

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“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.” Senator Mike Lee from Utah also endorsed Musk as ...