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House Speaker Mike Johnson faces growing Republican dissent over his handling of government funding, potentially jeopardizing his reelection as speaker on January 3.

Allies are urging Donald Trump to reaffirm his support for Johnson to avoid a prolonged leadership fight, which could delay certification of Trump’s 2024 election victory on January 6.

Johnson’s bipartisan spending bill, criticized by Trump, narrowly averted a government shutdown but failed to include Trump’s core debt-limit demands.

Some Republicans warn that a speakerless House would disrupt critical legislative processes, including election certification.

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They could just choose Musk, Speaker of House does not have to be a member of the house.

So they could just not certify the election and they have (acting) President Musk! 🤡

Edit: Supreme court then rules an "Acting President" doesn't actually need to be a natural born citizen, since he's not technically in office. And also add "This ruling shall only apply to Elon Musk."

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago

Yeah this is the kind of bs that terrifies me.

So. 20 Jan; Biden is no longer president. It would pass to the Speaker to be acting President. — and yeah I could see a few yahoos thinking that would be awesome. Ffs

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It legally couldn't pass to Musk, it would pass down to Patty Murray, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

"Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician and president pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2023 and the senior United States Senator from Washington since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore. Murray is also the youngest senator to occupy the office of president pro tempore in more than five decades. As president pro tempore, Murray is third in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency."

So yeah... They won't, but if they botched everything spectacularly, it would fall to a Democrat.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 20 points 22 hours ago

Lol don't worry, trump just joked about how Elon can't be president because he's an immigrant

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 21 hours ago

Please tell me you're not a writer for this coming season of Orange Turd in the White House.

Because I couldn't take the stress from the last season.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

I'm sorry about that we did decide to slow things down a little this season. Elon should become Speaker in the 2027 Congress and then Trump and Vance are double impeached for corporate treason. We expect Elon's state of emergency to last about a decade before Texas votes to be annexed by Russia.

-Sincerely, Outside Dev Team

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Will we at least get quality borscht?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

They're going to put Ketchup in it and claim it's TexRus.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Notice how the only good things in Texas are ones that got appropriated from other cultures.

And let's face it: take the Velveeta off TexMex, add some flavor, and what you have left is Mexican food, which is even better.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

There's a reason I used ketchup as an example. They take food from other cultures and ruin it.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Good Tex Mex does not have Velveeta.

As long as you don't compare it to Mexican food, Tex Mex can be fucking delicious. I just look at it as a different type/ethnicity of food

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