Johnson planning meeting with Musk, House Republicans
Will Johnson's budget plan pass in the House?
Congressional Republicans start backing away from Musk
The tech mogul hinted he might wade into spending negotiations again ahead of the next government funding deadline.
Speaker Johnson: "Elon Has Cracked The Code," "Gotten Into The Belly Of The Beast"
House Speaker Mike Johnson praised Elon Musk's DOGE campaign on Monday during an event hosted by "Americans For Prosperity." "For decades, as we all know, we haven't been able to do that job well. Even though we've requested data and insight,
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Speaker Johnson Claims Elon Musk Cracked Codes To Infiltrate The Government
Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Elon Musk instantly has broken the codes to government agency data with his algorithms which will comb through the data, deciding who lives and dies in the federal government. This is beyond disgusting and despicable.
Speaker Johnson hesitates to back 'DOGE stimulus checks' idea: 'We have a giant deficit'
President Donald Trump had said earlier this week his administration was weighing sending 20% of savings by DOGE to taxpayers.
Speaker Mike Johnson weighs in on DOGE stimulus checks, prefers paying off national debt
House Speaker Mike Johnson said stimulus checks tied to DOGE actions would make the Republican party look good, but added he preferred to pay off national debt.
Trump and Musk want DOGE checks. Congress has other ideas.
Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down.
Elon Musk Lobs Grenade at Johnson’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ With His Opposition
Elon Musk drove another wedge through a conservative consensus on a budget resolution as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to hold his “big, beautiful bill” together. Johnson was caught between swing district doves wary of cuts to Medicaid and fiscal hawks insisting the $2 trillion spending cuts didn’t go far enough.
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Elon Musk Splits Republican Party Further on Reconciliation Bill
“That sounds bad,” Elon Musk replied, reinforcing the MAGA wing’s opposition to Johnson’s version of the budget, which notably does not include the deep cuts to crucial programs that have huge standard-of-living effects, such as Medicaid—and leaving the budget in a precarious, vote-lacking position.
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Mike Johnson Hits Back at Elon Musk’s Attempt to Kill Budget Bill
Mike Johnson is trying and failing to maintain the appearance of budget unity within the GOP—and Elon Musk is only making it harder. The looming Republican budget resolution is an attempt to pack Donald Trump’s beefy agenda into one “big,
DOGE stimulus checks: Johnson side-steps question on Trump plan, says US has 'giant deficit'
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., signaled he was not a fan of a proposal to send Americans stimulus checks with the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and that he believed the funding was better directed toward the national debt.