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...

As Trump Turns to the General Election, He Flip Flops on Policy

By Martin Matishak

It only took a few days after Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for the contradictions on policy and politics to begin on Sunday. The billionaire, a verbal chameleon...
Trump Fallout Is Alienating More Conservatives from the GOP

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post

Donald Trump’s looming nomination has spurred some leaders of the conservative movement — for generations, the backbone of the GOP — to break free from a Republican Party now being rapidly reshaped...
Not So Fast, Paul Ryan—Some Conservatives Don’t Like Your Budget Deal

By Eric Pianin

With a nearly 17-year-career in Congress highlighted by his groundbreaking plans for slashing government spending , revamping major entitlement programs and derailing Obamacare, Rep. Paul Ryan of...
Obamacare Substitute in the Works from Ryan, Upton, Kline

By David Morgan, Reuters

Three top U.S. Republican lawmakers, including Representative Paul Ryan, will lead an effort to craft new health reforms that could replace Obamacare, party officials said on Friday. House leadership...
Why Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan Won’t Cut Costs

By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

Where pricing for services is opaque, there may be little local competition, providers have a direct incentive to run up costs and consumers almost never have access to the real cost of care.

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