House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Trump’s top White House aides are getting along fine with each other, and disputed media reports about infighting and tension among officials.
“There is no palace intrigue, divisions, between the principals,” Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters. “We talk constantly, our teams are working together. So there really is no schism whatsoever. Of course you are going to have this chattering class and that just kinds of happens in this day and age.”
Ryan said talk to the contrary “isn’t true and isn’t intimidating to us in any way whatsoever.”
Ryan said Trump is helping to build support for the GOP proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare, which so far lacks enough backing to pass the House or Senate. He said he speaks nearly every day to Trump and shrugged off Trump’s Twitter habit.
He pointed to Trump’s Wednesday rally in Tennessee promoting the GOP’s healthcare reform agenda. Trump’s support of the plan will unify Republicans behind it, Ryan said.
“The president has a connection with individuals in this country,” Ryan said. “He goes around the media and connects specifically with individuals. This is a power we haven’t seen since Ronald Reagan.”
