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...

Paul Ryan: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Him

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

He was relieved he didn’t have to teach Mitt Romney economics. He catches catfish with his bare hands. And he sometimes sleeps in his congressional office so he can get to the Capitol Hill gym more...
Medicare Doublespeak on the Campaign Trail

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

To judge the level of mendacity in the campaign debate over Medicare reform, perhaps the best place to start is the recommendations offered by the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission in December 2010.
GOP Convention Could Give Tampa a $153M Boost

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Tampa Bay, a haven of waterfront nightlife, cultural centers, pristine natural settings and nearly 100 golf courses, is getting ready to cash in on the crowning of Mitt Romney as the Republicans’...
The Ryan VP Bump for Romney: Slight So Far

By Eric Pianin

Almost every Republican and Democratic presidential nominee going back at least 16 years received a bump in the polls immediately after his choice of VP was announced. So far, voter response to the...
GOP Preview: Can Romney Win as ‘The Man from Bain’?

By Eric Pianin

Romney intends to meet the Bain Capital controversy head on during the four days of the GOP convention next week. Meanwhile, he hasn’t gotten quite the bump he might have hoped for from his pick of...

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