Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul floated the idea on Thursday. The Constitution doesn’t require that the speaker be a member of Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to be willing to work with the Democrats to make something happen, the Washington Post reports, but then Elon Musk started tweeting, and before we knew it, the continuing resolution was dead.

Tesla, Musk’s only publicly traded company, has seen its stock price gain nearly 90.8 percent since the election to around $480 a share, reflecting investor sentiments that its CEO’s newly-minted alliance with the president-elect will be fruitful for the EV maker, which is now worth over $1.4 trillion.