Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's defense of co-president Elon Musk and Donald Trump's unconscionable actions is to attack the media for reporting on it.
During a press gaggle, Fox News reporter Chad Pegram asked the right question about Article 1, the powers of the Executive branch and the unelected official known as Elon Musk that is causing havoc.
PEGRAM: By Republicans, on one hand, where we've been for years now, oh, we want to not have unelected bureaucrats in charge of things downtown, and yet ceding Article I powers to the executive branch under Elon Musk.
Is there not an inconsistency about calling for the elimination of the Department of Education? And yet we've heard from some of your colleagues here this morning, you know, we don't want women to be playing sports with men.
And aren't you ceding back that power, then, as it pertains to education, if you eliminate the Department of Education?
JOHNSON: No, look, I've got to challenge the premise of the question, Chad.
You know me. I'm a fierce advocate and defender of Article I. I mean, look, we are the legislative branch.
There's a reason the Founding Fathers put the Congress, the legislative branch, as the first article in the Constitution, and we're going to vigorously defend that.
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