Mar 24, 2017 - Politics & Policy

Breitbart saying WH and GOP lawmakers talking about replacing Paul Ryan

J. Scott Applewhite / AP

The failed healthcare bill could be Speaker Paul Ryan's death knell, Breitbart reports:

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…

Some of the complaints against him are that he misled the public and Donald Trump when he promised the bill would pass; and that he is a weak Speaker.

Some alternative names floated: Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Darrell Issa, Marsha Blackburn

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