'He is the best positioned and best prepared person to be speaker of the House,' Cramer said. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., gave Ryan a full-throated endorsement Monday. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., would not commit Monday to supporting Ryan as speaker and pressed for a delay to Tuesday's election, but also said 'everyone seems to be on the same page now.' Another, Rep. One consists of early and enthusiastic Trump supporters who bristled at how Ryan kept Trump at arm's length during the presidential campaign. That show of unity has mostly quieted two groups of Republicans who have been vexed by how Ryan has handled Trump. 'I'm not going to relitigate the past,' Ryan said Sunday on CNN. border and cut taxes are among their shared priorities. Both men have said in the past week that action to repeal the Affordable Care Act, secure the Southern U.S.

Trump and Ryan met last week on Capitol Hill and appeared before cameras together for the first time since the campaign began.

In media interviews since the election, he has pointed to the agenda as a blueprint for major legislation that can be enacted with a Republican White House and Congress working in tandem. Ryan instead hit the campaign trail and the TV airwaves holding a copy of the 'Better Way' policy agenda he developed – one that mostly ignored the areas where Trump's agenda clashed with tenets of conservative doctrine. And Trump's enthusiastic backers in Congress bristled when Ryan distanced himself from his party's presidential nominee – withholding his endorsement for several weeks after Trump clinched the nomination, for instance. On significant matters such as trade policy, immigration reform and entitlement cuts, Ryan and Trump crossed ways. Bannon, to a coequal position as chief strategist. On Sunday, he chose Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, a longtime Ryan friend and ally from Wisconsin, as his chief of staff while also tapping a campaign official who has been sharply critical of Ryan, Stephen K. The tension is manifest in Trump's plans for his White House. Labrador is in a clear minority among House Republicans – Ryan, R-Wis., enjoys broad support among the GOP rank-and-file – but his qualms reflect ongoing discomfort over how Ryan's brand of Republican politics will meld with Trump's. President-elect Donald Trump meets with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 'So far, I'm not hearing anything about changing the way we do business here in Washington, so I'm not ready to support him yet.' Labrador, R-Idaho, a co-founder of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. 'I haven't heard from him what he wants to change – what's going to be different the next two years than the last two years?' said Rep. 8 elections in which voters elected Republican Donald Trump to the White House over Democrat Hillary Clinton.īut several GOP members made clear Monday that although Trump's victory may have eased the internal party tensions that threatened Ryan's speakership before the election, it has not eliminated them entirely. Republicans kept their majorities in both the House and Senate in the Nov. He will face an election in January, when all members of the new House, both Democrats and Republicans, vote on a new speaker. Ryan, who faced no challengers for the post from within Republican ranks, was nominated during a closed-door meeting of all Republican lawmakers in the House. Ryan was unanimously nominated on Tuesday by his fellow Republicans for re-election as speaker in the new Congress next year, the House Republican Conference said on Twitter. House Speaker Paul Ryan arrives Tuesday for a news conference after his caucus meeting with House Republicans at the U.S. Updated: NovemPublished: November 15, 2016

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