On Thursday, Elon Musk resurfaced an old tweet from Speaker Mike Johnson, originally posted in 2023, which warned about the unsustainable pace of federal spending. “Where is the Mike Johnson of 2023!?” Musk asked, quote-tweeting Johnson’s original post citing the national debt and the $197,000-per-second pace of federal outlays.

Johnson quickly replied, defending his record: “The Mike Johnson of 2023 is the SAME Mike Johnson who has always been a lifelong fiscal hawk,” he wrote. Johnson pointed to his support for the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” calling it the largest package of mandatory spending cuts, tax cuts, and border security investments in history.

However, the Community Notes team on Musk's social media platform weren’t buying it. The post was slapped with a community note citing m

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