Republican candidates for president Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are praising the news that House Speaker John Boehner will be resigning from the speakership and Congress at the end of October.

“I think it’s a good thing and I think it’s time,” Trump said. “Somebody else will come in and maybe they’ll have a little bit tougher attitude.”

When asked if Boehner fought for conservative principles, Trump said, “No, he didn’t. Not enough.”

Donald J. Trump tells reporters that John Boehner didn’t do enough to fight for conservative principles, and suggested it was time for new blood: “Maybe they’ll have a tougher attitude.”

Posted by Fox Business on Friday, September 25, 2015

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Meanwhile, one of Trump’s rivals, Ted Cruz, is also happy to hear the news.

“You want to know how much each of you terrify Washington?” he said during remarks to the Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., according to the BBC. “Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House. Y’all come to town and somehow that changes.”

“My only request,” he quipped, “is, can you come more often?”

But Cruz fears Boehner may have cut a deal prior to his announcement.

“If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal – and then, presumably, to land in a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama’s priorities, that is not the behaviour one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House,” he said.