Donald Trump lists top 3 priorities during visit to Washington

“One example of that would be things involving social security where Trump says we should spend more on Social Security and congressional Republicans say we should spend less”, she added. We don’t know if Trump will try to push Ryan out.

But that’s not all that’s helping Ryan. “We had great conversations about how we work together”.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., struck a unifying tone and praised his party nominee for pulling off the most stunning upset in US political history.

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“This health-care law is not popular”, Ryan said.

“The past is the past”, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Fox News’s “Special Report” with Bret Baier Thursday after his meeting with president-elect Donald Trump.

Ryan has said he wants to be speaker in the new Congress and has expressed confidence in doing so. It’s an unbelievable thing.

On Wednesday morning, Hannity qualified his comments slightly, saying that “Assuming Trump wins, it’s up to him and congress if Paul Ryan should be speaker”.

Current results in the state show Trump leading Clinton by about 26,000 votes.

“The cloud is being lifted”, the speaker said. Yet he offered cautious praise for the speaker.

“You saw the Marquette Poll”, he told reporters.

Like others, Ryan said Trump had changed American politics and basic conceptions about the electorate by understanding American voters. “So it’s incumbent on him to name exactly what that is”.

According to Molly Reynolds, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, although it is a narrow win in the Senate, the Republicans margin in both chambers will bring Trump closer to the party establishment.

At a post-election news conference, McConnell declined to endorse Trump’s signature border wall with Mexico.

“Donald Trump had one of the most impressive victories we have ever seen”, Ryan told reporters, according to the pool report. The meeting – a working buffet lunch with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Melania Trump – was the fourth time Trump and Ryan have met in person.

Asked about his previous struggles with Trump, Ryan shrugged it off. They believe the President-elect will need the Wisconsin Republican’s expertise to pass key agenda items.

Ryan was frequently one of Trump’s most high-profile critics in the Republican Party and has found himself on tenuous footing as he seeks re-election to lead the House.

Ryan also said Trump helped GOP candidates across the country get elected and declared he “earned a mandate”.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke up in Trump’s favor last week.