Paul Ryan

House GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan Has Major Gaps in Cost and Coverage

By Eric Pianin

House Republicans Monday night unveiled their long-anticipated plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a conservative, market-based approach that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R...
Why Trump Won’t Touch Entitlement Reform…Yet

By Edward Morrissey

Trump needs a lot of money to pay for his grand plans. But tinkering with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterm elections next year is playing with fire.
Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan

By Edward Morrissey

Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump met with outgoing president Barack Obama to start planning the transition. Until then, the Republican successor to the White House had...
Trump Can’t Make America Great If He Kicks the Medicare Can Down the Road

By Edward Morrissey

Republicans in Washington face a tough question after unexpectedly winning the presidency and controlling the Senate in the 2016 elections. They have regained single-party governance for the first...
GOP Leaders’ Tepid Praise Spells Trouble If Trump Wins

By Rob Garver

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The two most powerful Republicans in Congress last night presided over the formal nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election, and of...

House GOP Leaders and Trump Find Common Ground on New Tax Proposals

By Eric Pianin

Although Congress has put off any serious consideration of comprehensive tax reform until next year, House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled a far ranging wish list of measures designed to spur...
This Is Exactly Why Paul Ryan Didn't Want to Be Speaker of the House

By Rob Garver

Paul Ryan never wanted to be speaker of the House, and Wednesday was a perfect example of why. The guy who made his reputation as the Republicans’ wonk-in-chief as chairman of the Budget Committee...
Republicans Get Their Pound of Flesh by Censuring the Head of the IRS

By Charles Clark, Government Executive

In the latest in their bid to impeach the Internal Revenue Commissioner, Republicans on the House Oversight panel on Wednesday used a business meeting to approve a resolution 23-15 “condemning and...
After Endorsing Trump, Paul Ryan Decries ‘Anger’ and ‘Division’ in Politics

By Rob Garver

In this through-the-looking-glass period in U.S. politics, where cognitive dissonance has become more normal than remarkable, there shouldn’t be much left that surprises us. The Republican National...
One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard

By Martin Matishak

In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...

GOP Dares Obama to Balance the Budget

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

The new Republican budget was issued Tuesday with a challenge for President Obama and Democrats: Give us your blueprint for balancing the government’s finances.
How the GOP Learned to Love Defense Cuts

By David Francis

Republicans have long billed themselves as the pro-Pentagon party. But history shows that’s not the case.
What Congress Can Learn from the Cardinals

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

It is no secret that today’s Roman Catholic Church, beset by fiscal difficulties, bureaucratic infighting and accusations of sexual abuse, is deeply troubled. It’s also no secret that today’s federal...
Ryan Releases New GOP Plan to Balance Budget

By Richard Cowan, Reuters

Republicans kicked off their latest deficit-reduction gambit on Tuesday with a 10-year balanced budget plan that could either be shelved within weeks or help kick-start negotiations with President...
Why These Budget Plans Are More Fiction Than Fiscal

By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

When Republican Congressman Paul Ryan unveils his budget plan today, it will get probed, prodded, and debated for its ideas about balancing the budget over 10 years. If the recent past is any guide,...

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