Republicans Consider Making Elon Musk Speaker of the House

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : There's no question that a Speaker Musk would push anti-trans legislation, as many Republicans relied heavily on fearmongering about trans children to bolster their 2024 campaigns.
56% : "Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said that one of the two heads of the soon-to-be-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) -- Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy -- should become speaker of the House.
48% : Musk and Ramaswamy have made it clear that, as heads of DOGE, they intend to consider making cuts to safety net programs, including Social Security.
32% : "Some Democratic lawmakers also joked that Musk should run the House, issuing tongue-in-cheek commentaries on how he seemingly already runs it, as the billionaire recently managed to kill spending bills through dozens of posts on X."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.
30% : As an acolyte of Trump's, Musk likely wouldn't do so, creating considerable conflicts of interest, as he would be tasked with overseeing the passage of legislation that would affect his businesses.
27% : Several Republican lawmakers in Congress are calling on billionaire Elon Musk, president-elect Donald Trump's pick to co-lead a purported commission on government efficiency, to replace current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
13% : That measure failed when Musk, and eventually Trump, called on Republicans in the House to vote against it, resulting in Johnson scrapping the bill.

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