House Speaker Paul Ryan has had a tough month. After initially keeping his distance from Donald Trump, he came around to saying he would vote for the Republican nominee. On the same day, Trump made headlines with comments declaring that a judge was unfit, by virtue of his parents’ Mexican nationality, to preside over a case involving alleged fraud at Trump University. The comments, which drew fire even from previous Trump endorsers and supporters like Sen. Marco Rubio and Newt Gingrich, surely couldn’t have been the sort of message Ryan envisioned for his endorsement day.

But this week Ryan sought to take the narrative back. Billed as the first plank in a six-plank agenda aimed at showing how conservative principles can lead to a more “confident America”, the 35-page document outlines ways that Ryan hopes the House of Representatives will be able to push for reforms to programs that too long have made it hard for people to move up out of poverty.