Who answers to who? Fux Noise demands Speaker Johnson defend spending bill to Elon Musk

House Speaker Mike Johnson found himself cornered live on Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning when he was confronted with Elon Musk’s declaration on X that his new congressional spending bill “should not pass.”

The Republican leader was invited onto the Fox News’ breakfast show to discuss the bipartisan deal struck on Tuesday evening for a stop-gap bill to fund the federal government through to March 14. It includes $100 billion for disaster relief and support for farmers among the many provisions outlined across its 1,547 pages.

But Musk – the Big Tech mogul and Trump ally who has become an influential voice in the president-elect’s ear in recent months and now heads the newly-formed advisory Department of Government Efficiency – has already expressed his disapproval of the bill, albeit without going into detail, writing bluntly on his social media platform: “This bill should not pass.”

After introducing a compilation of clips showing members of Johnson’s own caucus on Capitol Hill griping about the bill as “unserious” and referring to it as a “dumpster fire,” Fox co-host Steve Doocy put it to his guest that both Republicans and Democrats are unhappy with him and that their discontent could harm his chances of re-election to the speakership in the new year.

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