House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appears to be on the brink of losing his gavel when the next Congress is sworn in next month.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed a bipartisan government funding bill Wednesday, and Johnson has seemingly lost the support of many Republicans to hold onto his job, which senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested should go to Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who the president-elect tapped to slash trillions from the federal budget.
"The fact that Mike Lee and...