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Salon
Salon
Politics
Griffin Eckstein

Johnson jokes he offered Musk his job

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he joked with Elon Musk about taking his job after several members of the Republican delegation in the chamber floated the billionaire Tesla CEO for the role. 

Johnson successfully passed a resolution to continue funding the federal government after days of GOP squabbling. The third attempt at funding the government beyond midnight tonight was without an agreement package to suspend the federal debt ceiling for two years, something President-elect Donald Trump insisted upon.

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