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Paul Ryan's House Agenda Upended by Trump, Cruz Dominance

  • Anti-establishment campaign is entangling speaker's plans
  • Budget resolution and spending bills are big test for Ryan
House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 3, 2016.

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 3, 2016.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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It was never going to be easy for House Speaker Paul Ryan to cut through the noise of a presidential campaign and chart out a course of conservative policies for the Republican Party.

But the bombast and divisiveness of the presidential campaign has left Ryan struggling to do the most basic duties of Congress.