There is no requirement that the Speaker of the House be an elected member of Congress. After Elon Musk all but killed a bill to fund the government, lawmakers now propose to cut out the middleman.
Just so everyone knows because the article headline makes it seem like it’s a large amount of the GOP House Caucus, the 2 people who put forward this idea initially were GOP Senators and then MTG jumped on board of course. But Senators have no say in who becomes speaker of the house so this all seems rather pointless unless a large amount of GOP House members come out in favor of the idea.
Just so everyone knows because the article headline makes it seem like it’s a large amount of the GOP House Caucus, the 2 people who put forward this idea initially were GOP Senators and then MTG jumped on board of course. But Senators have no say in who becomes speaker of the house so this all seems rather pointless unless a large amount of GOP House members come out in favor of the idea.