{"id":278269,"date":"2016-11-10T00:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-feat-can-speaker-ryan-and-gop-work-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T00:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:11:02","slug":"political-feat-can-speaker-ryan-and-gop-work-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-feat-can-speaker-ryan-and-gop-work-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Political feat: Can Speaker Ryan and GOP work with Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.11\/thumbnail\/582395a8c461887b638b463e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan said the president-elect Donald Trump \u201cjust earned a mandate.\u201d However, whether Trump\u2019s plans for a national infrastructure rebuilding program dovetail with Ryan\u2019s ideas of tax reform remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cNow Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government,\u201d<\/em> Ryan told reporters on Wednesday from his home in Wisconsin.\u00a0<em>\u201cMost incredible political feat I\u2019ve seen in my lifetime.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: House Speaker Paul Ryan says Donald Trump &#8220;turned politics on its head,&#8221; promises &#8220;hand-in-hand&#8221; work on GOP agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AP Politics (@AP_Politics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Politics\/status\/796387261482991617\">November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>He said the president-elect was able to reach out to people nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDonald Trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard. He connected in ways with people that no else else did,\u201d<\/em> Ryan said, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/305223-ryan-trump-will-lead-a-unified-republican-government\">according to<\/a>\u00a0The Hill.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will work hand-in-hand\u201d<\/em> on the GOP agenda, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Better Way, the agenda includes tax cuts for all, a comprehensive tax overhaul, a dismantling of Obamacare, a roll back of Obama\u2019s energy policies and his regulatory agenda, national security and spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Wednesday said President Obama was concerned about stripping projections from the healthcare law.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, didn\u2019t campaign as a traditional Republican. He opposed free-trade deals and cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and he was often critical of Washington, and repeatedly talked of <em>\u201cdraining the swamp.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ryan also distanced himself from Trump during the campaign, particularly over the release of a 2005 video of Trump bragging about groping women.<\/p>\n<p>During this victory speech in New York, Trump said it was time <em>\u201cfor Americans to bind the wounds of division.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across this nation it is time for us to come together as one united people, it\u2019s time,\u201d<\/em> Trump said to a room of supporters, who chanted<em> \u201cUSA! USA!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qsvy10D5rtc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans and this is so important to me,\u201d<\/em> said Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically he said the country would <em>\u201cembark on a project of national growth and renewal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvery single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,\u201d<\/em> Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals, we are going to rebuild our infrastructure which will become second to none and will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. We will also finally take care of our great veterans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em\/>Whether Ryan\u2019s favored tax cuts plan will work with the president-elect\u2019s agenda of a $5 billion infrastructure rebuilding bill is unknown.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s not in the Better Way agenda,\u201d<\/em> Ryan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-11-09\/speaker-ryan-s-new-challenge-getting-along-with-president-trump\">said about the infrastructure bill <\/a>in October, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Ryan told reporters,<em> \u201cWe\u2019re all on the same page on these things. I think our relationship is fine. I think we\u2019re going to hit the ground running. We have already talked about getting our transitions working together.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/366162-ryan-trump-political-feat\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan said the president-elect Donald Trump \u201cjust earned a mandate.\u201d However, whether Trump\u2019s plans for a national infrastructure rebuilding program dovetail with Ryan\u2019s ideas of tax reform remains to be seen. \u201cNow Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government,\u201d Ryan told reporters on Wednesday from his home in Wisconsin.\u00a0\u201cMost incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}