Speaker Mike Johnson met with Elon Musk late Tuesday night at the White House, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting. It comes as the Department of Government Efficiency’s slash-and-burn cuts across the federal government are fueling growing tensions with Republican members of Congress.
Musk and DOGE, which the tech billionaire helms, have been targets of recent town hall anger in some Republican-held districts. A growing number of Republican lawmakers, in quiet conversations on Capitol Hill and increasingly in public, have questioned DOGE’s tactics and called on the office to operate in a more methodical method.
Johnson met with Musk two weeks ago alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who is chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency — an effort designed to complement and amplify Musk’s DOGE.
