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

Elon Musk voiced support for GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest spending bill on Friday, giving him a sigh of relief just hours before a government shutdown could begin. "This is great," Musk wrote in a post to X,

While House speaker is expected to ride out pressure from MAGA Republicans to vacate his role, here are some likely replacements.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he jokingly asked Elon Musk if he wanted to take over his job — after the billionaire helped torpedo a major government spending bill on Thursday,

Ky., has floated the idea of replacing House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with Elon Musk after the chaotic collapse of the continuing resolution spending bill.

It took President-elect Donald Trump and his close confidant, Elon Musk, only about 24 hours to tank a stopgap funding bill presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed to keep the government open.

The speaker's push for a short-term government funding bill met louder resistance than usual from Republicans in the House.

After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk,

I don’t have the answers right now.” open image in gallery Elon Musk made Mike Johnson’s job very difficult this week, just as Congress was ready to leave town for the holidays. (Getty ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing major unrest among his colleagues after Musk and Trump tanked a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said it feels as if tech billionaire Elon Musk has become the United States’s prime minister. Gonzales joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the “confusing” dynamic between President-elect Trump,

A bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown was vanquished after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump ... saying they’d be “primaried.” House Speaker Mike Johnson—who earlier defended the spending bill—scrapped it.