WASHINGTON ― If you were counting on Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans to act as a check on President-elect Donald Trump, you might want to re-evaluate your saviors.

Tuesday morning began with the House Republican conference laying out Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” hats on the seat of every GOP House member. It continued with Ryan praising Trump and refusing to criticize his selection of former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon to serve as a senior adviser in the administration.

Emails that The Hill obtained show Bannon wrote, “Paul Ryan is the enemy,” adding that he wants him gone by the spring. Bannon also said on his radio show that Ryan is constantly “rubbing his social-justice Catholicism in my nose every second.”

Twice presented with an opportunity to speak out about Bannon’s appointment to a position that’s been described as a “co-equal” with the chief of staff on Tuesday, Ryan passed. “I’m not looking backwards,” the speaker said. “I’m looking forwards.”

“The president is going to be judged on his results,” he added. “This is a person who helped him win an incredible victory on an incredible campaign.”

Ryan began the press conference by welcoming everybody to “the dawn of a new, unified, Republican government.”

“Feels really good to say that,” Ryan said.

That seems to have changed, however.

Ryan told reporters on Tuesday that Republicans were working with the Trump administration to put together a plan for the lame-duck session and 2017. There was no indication that the speaker had any reservations about the incoming president.

Part of that agenda will be whether Republicans pass a short-term continuing resolution, which would allow a new Congress to pass a large spending bill early in the Trump administration, or to just pass a large spending bill now so that the New York businessman doesn’t deal with spending bills until October.

But if you thought Ryan or other Republicans had any real say over that or any other decision, Trump’s first official supporter in Congress, Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) put that to rest.

Asked on Tuesday if Ryan or Trump was setting the agenda, Collins was emphatic.

“President-elect Trump is the president. He is the leader of the Republican Party,” Collins said. “He had down-ballot coattails. We are where we are because of Donald J. Trump. So there’s no question, he will be setting the agenda and the vision.”

“We will work with him through Paul Ryan,” Collins added.

Ryan seems to agree.