UPDATE: Speaker Paul Ryan’s Office Denies Lawmaker Will Resign Shortly

UPDATE: The Office of Paul Ryan denies the House Speaker will resign soon.

Paul Ryan’s spokesperson is denying a claim by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., that the speaker is resigning soon according to a Capitol Hill “rumor.”

Spokesperson AshLee Strong said Ryan, R-Wis., isn’t going anywhere.

“The Speaker is not resigning,” Strong told the Washington Examiner in a statement.

Ryan’s office did not respond to The Gateway Pundit’s request for comment.

Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) revealed on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that House Speaker Paul Ryan is rumored to be resigning in the very near future. 

RGJ reports:

Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that’s around Capitol Hill.

“The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker,” Amodei said. […]

Scalise, from Louisiana’s 1st U.S. House District, is currently the House majority whip, responsible for rounding up votes on various bills and issues. In June of 2017, he was shot during practice for the congressional baseball team in Virginia. He survived after being in critical condition and returned to Congress in late September of 2017.

“Now that is interesting because nobody has talked to members (of the U.S. House) on how they are going to vote (on new leadership),” the Congressman said.

“Now, maybe they have talked to all of the members but me. I don’t know, so that is the rumor mill from last week.”

This isn’t the first time Ryan has been the subject of retirement rumors.

Last December, POLITICO reported the Wisconsin lawmaker is set to leave Washington after the 2018 midterm elections.

POLITICO reports:

Ryan was tiring of D.C. even before reluctantly accepting the speakership. He told his predecessor, John Boehner, that it would be his last job in politics—and that it wasn’t a long-term proposition. In the months following Trump’s victory, he began contemplating the scenarios of his departure. More recently, over closely held conversations with his kitchen cabinet, Ryan’s preference has become clear: He would like to serve through Election Day 2018 and retire ahead of the next Congress. This would give Ryan a final legislative year to chase his second white whale, entitlement reform, while using his unrivaled fundraising prowess to help protect the House majority—all with the benefit of averting an ugly internecine power struggle during election season. Ryan has never loved the job; he oozes aggravation when discussing intra-party debates over “micro-tactics,” and friends say he feels like he’s running a daycare center. On a personal level, going home at the end of next year would allow Ryan, who turns 48 next month, to keep promises to family; his three children are in or entering their teenage years, and Ryan, whose father died at 55, wants desperately to live at home with them full-time before they begin flying the nest.

In November, Ryan told POLITICO that he hardly thinks about job security because House Speaker isn’t a position he even wanted to hold.

“No, because it’s not a job I ever wanted in the first place,” Ryan said on the subject of job security.

“If I was dying to be speaker, I guess it probably would be a dagger over my head. But I don’t think like that.”

According to the Washington Examiner, Ryan said he isn’t going anywhere. Of course, the denial is text book politics.

“Next year is going to be the year where we work on people.”

“Next year is the year we work on getting people where they need to get in life, in better jobs, an actual career, closing the skills gap,” said Ryan.

“When we have tens of millions of people right here in this country, falling short of their potential not working, not looking for a job or not in school getting a skill to get a job, that’s a problem.”

“So that’s why we need to tackle these things,” added Ryan.

 

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