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Republicans on Capitol Hill suddenly reversed course Tuesday and announced they wouldn’t gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, just a couple of hours after criticism from President-elect Donald Trump, who told them to focus on health care and tax reform instead.

House Republicans had quietly slipped the ethics office change into a rules bill, expected to be adopted by the new Congress after it gets sworn in Tuesday.

The change would have largely nullified the independent body’s power and put it under the control of the House Ethics Committee.

But the controversial measure was opposed, not only by Trump but by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.