Flamethrower Elon Musk floated for House speaker amid government...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : 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 leadership over government funding.
46% : "Speaker Mike Johnson: maybe it's easier to just hand your gavel over to Musk," Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in a swipe on X.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) lamented to reporters that "I don't have the answers right now," when asked whom he was actually negotiating with on government funding.
42% : "If Elon Musk is kind of cosplaying co-President here, I don't know why Trump doesn't just hand him the Oval Office, or Speaker Johnson should maybe just hand Elon Musk the gavel if they just want that billionaire to run the country," Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) told reporters.
40% : During that impasse, some members had floated Trump as a potential successor, but he rejected that push.
40% : Trump has maintained that Johnson can "easily" hold onto his job if he course corrects on government funding.
33% : "If the speaker acts decisively, and tough, and gets rid of all of the traps being set by the Democrats, which will economically and, in other ways, destroy our country, he will easily remain speaker," Trump told Fox News.
29% : Last month, Trump, 78, announced Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is not an actual government department.

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