House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday the Republican dominated government will have to go "bold" and "big" to get the country where it wants to go.

"Welcome to the dawn of a new unified Republican government," Ryan said at a news conference. "This will be a government focused on turning President-elect [Donald] Trump's victory into real progress for the American people."

"At the same time we recognize that the task ahead of us is enormous," he said. "If we are going to put our country back on the right track, we have got to be bold and we have to go big."