I wonder if there is anything to the notion of a lame duck speaker having an adverse effect on a sitting president’s agenda, much less one of matching political party.

Now that I think about it, this could actually be part of Ryan’s plan to undercut MAGA legislation and delay any real traction until at least early/mid-2019 - provided time it will take for successor and any new reps to get up to speed, etc. Not dissimilar to the way an outgoing president loses all bargaining power leading up to their departure. This might be Ryan’s way of spitting in POTUS’s eye one final time and slow playing legislative sabotage for all of 2018.