President Trump slammed Speaker Paul Ryan on Twitter for rejecting his call to end birthright citizenship. Said Trump: “Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the majority rather than giving his opinions on birthright citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican majority will

Speaker Paul Ryan told Face the Nation that President Trump’s campaign rallies “sometimes” cause division and that “sometimes he doesn’t” practice unifying politics. Said Ryan: “I worry about tribal identity politics becoming the new norm of how politics is waged.”

Speaker Paul Ryan said President Trump has told him he will sign a spending bill to avert a government shutdown, the Washington Post reports. The House is prepared to pass the legislation later Wednesday and send it to Trump’s desk. Said Ryan: “I’m confident he will sign it. … This funds our

“It boomerangs. He goes in the other direction, so that’s not effective. The pissing match doesn’t work.” — Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), quoted by the New York Times, on why he’s not publicly critical of President Trump.

New York Times: “Ryan announced in April that he would not be seeking re-election, ending a 20-year run in Congress that, for most of it, seemed to be on a straight-up trajectory. Ryan’s official reason for leaving was that his ‘family clock was ticking’ and he no longer wanted to be a ‘weekend