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

Senator Rand Paul has suggested that Elon Musk could replace Mike Johnson as House Speaker following a backlash over a bipartisan government funding bill. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Kentucky Republican said: "The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress.

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,

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.

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.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's intervention over the government funding bill before the shutdown shows their strength — and Mike Johnson's weakness.

President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, is using Elon Musk's wealth and influence to bully Congress. Controlling the levers of government is one of the benefits Musk expects to receive after spending $275 million to help get Trump reelected.