{"id":69624,"date":"2017-03-25T06:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69624"},"modified":"2017-03-25T06:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T10:35:42","slug":"did-speaker-paul-ryan-just-end-his-political-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69624","title":{"rendered":"Did Speaker Paul Ryan Just End His Political Career?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress<\/h2>\n

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by<\/span> MATTHEW BOYLE
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Republican officials in Congress and the White House are now openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House, after Ryan failed to pass the American Health Care Act out of the House and misled the public and President Donald Trump when he promised repeatedly the bill would pass.<\/h2>\n

Ryan was caught on an audio file from October\u2014obtained by Breitbart News and published a couple weeks ago<\/a>\u2014saying he is \u201cnot going to defend Donald Trump\u2014not now, not in the future.\u201d While the audio file does not make the comments clear, Ryan\u2019s staff later claimed that it was specifically about the Access Hollywood<\/em> tape scandal from the election. The audio tape of Ryan, recorded from a House GOP members\u2019 conference call, does not make that context clear.<\/p>\n

Many allies of the president and several White House officials over the weeks since have confirmed to Breitbart News that the president is concerned that Ryan may not have his\u2014or his agenda\u2019s\u2014best interests at heart. Ryan\u2019s failure to deliver the votes on healthcare cement Trump\u2019s skepticism of Ryan, they say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another example of the staff not serving the president well and the weakness of the Paul Ryan speakership,\u201d a source close to President Trump told Breitbart News. \u201cThis calls into question once again the speaker\u2019s commitment to supporting Donald Trump and his agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaker Ryan proved today that he does not have the best interests of the President at heart,\u201d said another source close to the president. \u201cHe sold out the president and showed his word can be taken with a grain of salt. There is only one course of action that should be taken to move past this catastrophe and that is the swift removal of Paul Ryan from the speakership.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House sources tell Breitbart News that the president is very frustrated with Ryan and feels that he has saved him multiple times already. After the election in November, it was widely reported<\/a> that there were enough Republican votes to remove Ryan as Speaker\u2014and the only reason conservatives kept him is that Trump won the election and embraced Ryan. But now Trump may perceive Ryan as a\u00a0burden rather than someone who can help enact his agenda.<\/p>\n