Since department heads are in the line of succession, and

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Elon Musk is not a natural-born American, can he even be a department head?

I don’t know anything about the other guy.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Pretty sure the Constitution only prohibits President and VP.

[tritsofme]

2. Yes, Madeline Albright, for instance, was foreign born.

However that individual would be ineligible for the presidency and skipped over in the line of succession.

[RockRaven]

3. When people who are not eligible to be POTUS are in positions in the line of

succession, they just get skipped over in the case where it would matter. At least that is how it has been interpreted in the past. With the weirdo corrupt dickheads in control of every branch, how it will be interpreted now... probably the same, but who knows?

[tritsofme]

5. It's not just an interpretation, it's made explicit in the law.

[RockRaven]

6. These people say up is down on the regular, so it doesn't really matter how explicit

the law is. What matters is who is going to force anyone else to do or not do something.

[tritsofme]

7. This is just silly, whoever is just behind the foreign born official in presidential succession

would sue and immediately win, if it even somehow came to that. The end.

[haele]

4. I doubt it would be a cabinet position.

It's a vanity advisory department with a kewl name. I thought about it a bit, and remembered setting up a new government project of any type department isn't something that can be done in a couple weeks.
I doubt Congress will fund the implementation of a brand new department, even if they put it under GSA or some other actual Department.
*rump got lucky with Space Force, it was already a Command and the only money (granted, it was a lot of money) to be spent would be on the change in "the brand" - uniforms, stationary, logos, plaques, ect.
Musk's "DOGE" vanity think tank/advisory board would be at least quadruple the cost to wind up a department that would actually be able to implement changes. And it would still be 3 or 4 years before his office would be ready to do anything.

He's just getting an ego-boo advisory group. Whether or not they can actually implement anything is another story. He's going to have to spend most his own money to set it up and actually do anything within a year.

Haele

[onenote]

9. Exactly. it would take an act of congress to create a new cabinet position.

And the presidential succession act would have to be amended to add it.

It's only supposed to be around for less than two years. It's essentially a presidential commission, not an actual "department".

[ColinC]

8. He can be a department head

But he can't be president.


I guess