Tuesday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) gave what appeared to be his full support to President-elect Donald Trump.
But according to a new report from Breitbart News, it’s a completely different story behind the closed doors of the House Republican Conference. And those who seem to be most eager to stonewall the president-elect’s agenda are those whose betrayal likely stings the most: the House Freedom Caucus.
As Breitbart’s Julia Hahn reports:
Top aides tell Breitbart News that certain members of the House Freedom Caucus are backing the Republican leadership’s agenda by supporting the re-election of House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has long championed globalist donor class policies, such as the uninhibited flow of cheap foreign goods and labor across international borders through expansionist immigration policies and unrestricted free trade.
“At a certain point, we’re going to have to change our group’s name from the ‘House Freedom Caucus’ to the ‘Paul Ryan Caucus,'” one senior aide to a member of the House Freedom Caucus told Breitbart.
The aide continued:
Many members of the Freedom Caucus never opposed Ryan’s positions on trade and immigration the way their constituents do. So they’re more than happy to ignore and cast aside the policies that got Trump elected in exchange for going along with the Ryan’s policies. They’d rather keep the status quo and march lockstep with Ryan than have to stir things up by electing someone who would fight for Trump’s mandate and fight to fulfill the wishes of the American people.
The same message is getting out to establishment media outlets.
That Breitbart is reporting on the issue is perhaps a bit of good news. Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon is Trump’s most senior aide in the new administration.
The best way to avoid Republican Party in-fighting, however, is for the people to pressure on their elected officials to get behind the policies they voted into office on Nov. 8.
