He betrayed his promises and left a legacy of debt and disappointment. After the profligacy of the George W. And Ryan presented himself as the wonkish apostle of this new GOP, rolling up his sleeves and running through the charts, graphs, and tables that made his case. Kevin McCarthy and Eric Cantor. But we have not returned from this experience empty handed. What Republicans had returned with, according to Ryan, was a willingness to make hard choices. Medicare is privatized. Medicaid is also privatized.
The employer tax exclusion is fully eliminated, replaced by a tax credit that grows more slowly than medical costs. That was progress. They included massive tax cuts with underestimated costs and unspecified financing — which is what led Krugman to call him a charlatan back in Ryan waved this away as nitpicking. The numbers proved them right. Ryan was elected speaker of the House on October 29, Over the next three years, annual deficits increased by almost 80 percent.
It is entirely attributable to policy choices he made. As speaker, Ryan had tremendous power. He could have, for instance, brought immigration compromises to the floor of the House but enforced congressional PayGo rules to bar any bills that increased the deficit from coming to a vote.
Instead, he refused to bring immigration compromises to the floor while personally shepherding bills that betrayed the ideas that won him power. We are the choices we make — and Ryan made his.
But I took Ryan seriously when he said he was. I covered the arguments Ryan made, the policies he crafted, and I treated them as if they offered a guide to how Republicans would govern. Rather than go down with the ship - or perhaps suffer the same fate as Tom Foley in , the last sitting speaker to lose a re-election race - Mr Ryan is reserving his seat on a lifeboat.
He's not the first congressional Republican to do so, and with the top man leading the way, more are sure to follow. According to Axios , which broke the story, he has found his job frustrating, partly because of President Donald Trump.
Mr Trump praised the speaker on Twitter as "a truly good man". I'm not from New York, we're from a different generation. So we have different styles," Mr Ryan said. He added that despite having "had a lot of friction in our relationship," the two men have a "common agenda to agree on". The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Mr Ryan's departure was an ominous sign for Republicans, months away from nationwide elections. Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question.
We are with you Paul! All House lawmakers and 35 senators will face the voters this November, in what will amount to a referendum on Republican control of Congress and the White House. The resignation of Mr Ryan - whose role as House speaker places him second-in-line to the president after Vice-President Mike Pence - will spark speculation about whether he could one day mount a White House campaign. The clean-cut conservative, who has served in the House since , was the Republican vice-presidential running mate for Mitt Romney in Love of country compelled Paul Ryan to accept the Speakership, a role he alone could fill at a critical time.
He unified the House, passed scores of bills, and led with integrity, honor and dignity. The country will miss Speaker Ryan. Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who served as House Speaker from to , has seldom weighed in on events since leaving office, but issued a lengthy statement decrying Republican plans to object to certifying the Electoral College results in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Twelve incoming and sitting Republican senators and dozens of GOP House members plan to object to the count over President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. The fact that this effort will fail does not mean it will not do significant damage to American democracy. Ryan asked fellow conservatives to think about the "precedent that it would set" and noted the Trump campaign's failed efforts in the court to challenge election results in a number of states.
The legal process was exhausted, and the results were decisively confirmed," he added. If states wish to reform their processes for future elections, that is their prerogative. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
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