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Speaker Mike Johnson to Meet Elon Musk in Texas as GOP Courts Midterm Money

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Key Takeaways

  • •Johnson is scheduled to meet Musk while campaigning for Republican candidates in Texas.
  • •Musk is reportedly weighing at least $100 million in spending through America PAC to aid GOP candidates.
  • •Republicans believe some of the money could go to key congressional battleground races.
  • •Musk spent about $290 million backing Trump and other Republicans in the 2024 election.
  • •Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC has more than $400 million and plans to spend it this fall.
Speaker Mike Johnson to Meet Elon Musk in Texas as GOP Courts Midterm Money

House Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to hold a sit-down meeting with Elon Musk on Friday in Texas, as Republicans look to the tech billionaire to pour millions into critical midterm races — contests that will decide which party controls the House and Senate for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.

Johnson is expected to meet with Musk while campaigning for Republican candidates across Texas, POLITICO first reported. The face-to-face comes as Musk is reportedly considering spending at least $100 million to help GOP candidates through his America PAC super PAC, the spending vehicle he built for the 2024 race. Under federal election law, super PACs may accept unlimited contributions but cannot coordinate their spending with campaigns — the framework that channels megadonor money through such groups rather than directly to candidates.

"Battleground Republicans need Elon's support and they will always be happy to take a meeting with him," one person familiar with the scheduling told POLITICO.

Insiders cautioned that Musk's schedule is "fluid and there could be a last-minute change." While the full details of Musk's potential spending remain unclear, some Republicans believe the Trump ally is considering directing at least some of the money toward key congressional battleground races, according to POLITICO. For Johnson, the outreach is institutional as well as financial: he leads a House Republican majority running on a narrow margin, and his party's grip on both chambers is what November will test.

"Any spending by Musk — the richest person in the world — to boost Republicans ahead of November would add to the GOP's already substantial cash advantage over Democrats," the report said. "President Donald Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC is sitting on more than $400 million, which its leaders have said will be deployed this fall."

Musk spent roughly $290 million supporting Trump and other Republicans during the 2024 election, primarily through America PAC, which concentrated much of its spending on field and get-out-the-vote operations, making the world's richest man also the cycle's largest individual donor to political committees.

Trump and Musk, the former head of the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency effort known as DOGE, have since reconciled following their very public falling out over the president's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. As part of the reconciliation, Musk reportedly promised Trump at least $100 million to help Republicans keep control of Congress in November. What remains to be seen is whether Friday's sit-down converts that pledge into a firm commitment — and where America PAC's money actually lands, from ad reservations to field programs, once fall spending begins in the races that will decide the majorities.