Paul Ryan

Mike Pence And Paul Ryan Opposed Trump's Muslim Immigration Ban In Earlier Tweets

... of our constitutional guarantees for all persons in this country.”. Pence was joined in his policy flip-flopping by Speaker of The House Paul Ryan , who also rejected a Muslim ban in a tweet that has since been deleted. “A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America’s fundamental values. I reject it,” he wrote last August. — Sarita Mehra (@Reckless Zen) January 29, 2017. Ryan sang a different tune Friday, when he released a statement supporting Trump’s executive order. “Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland. We are a compassionate nation, and I support the refugee resettlement program, but it’s time to reevaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process. This is why we passed bipartisan legislation in the wake of the Paris attacks to pause the intake of refugees. President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country.”. ...

Rep. Sam Johnson And Other Republicans Like Paul Ryan Want To Gut Safety Net For Older Americans

... but worse that he tries to do it so dishonestly. Maybe he just doesn’t care. After all, having been a Congress critter for 28 years, not only can Johnson draw a big Social Security check, but he can also receive more than $70,000 a year from his congressional pension. What a deal — for Uncle Sam, that is. For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greed meisters and their political henchmen. Haven’t they been punished enough. No, says House Speaker Paul Ryan. Along with Uncle Sam and other top Republican leaders  of Congress, Ryan intends to slash the little bit of retirement money that middle-class and low-income workers depend on. And ultimately, Speaker Ryan is out to kill our Social Security program altogether, piously preaching that dependence on such public “entitlements” weakens our nation’s morality. Entitlements? Social Security isn’t a welfare program. Regular working people pay a large percentage on every dime of their wages into the Social Security pension fund ...

Paul Ryan Better Watch His Back

... was too late. The #Never Trumpers did no better. Their campaign was almost embarrassingly ineffective. Democrats did a bit better, largely because they had lots of polls to back up their confidence in victory. In the end, though, they underestimated Trump too. They underestimated the willingness of outsiders like James Comey and Vladimir Putin to help him, and they underestimated Trump's appeal to Midwestern working-class whites. Now he's president. I fear that Paul Ryan is doing the same thing. He's hoping to chivvy Trump along for a while and get his pet bills passed: tax cuts, Obamacare repeal, corporate-friendly deregulation, block grants for Medicaid and other social welfare programs, etc. As Grover Norquist once said, all Ryan needs is a president with a few working fingers to sign the bills he sends him. If the price of this is ditching TPP and pretending to build a wall, no big deal. Maybe it'll work. Maybe Ryan will get what he wants and then Trump will implode this time. But Ryan better be sure that he isn't the sucker in this relationship. Trump has a long memory for people like Ryan who failed to support him enthusiastically, as well as an army of supporters ...

Paul Ryan Just Made Bank Of America's Year

... exactly what the reforms will look like, but irrespective of the details, it's almost certain that Bank of America ( NYSE: BAC ) will be a major beneficiary of them. An inhospitable environment. Banks are operating in one of the most inhospitable environments in decades. Interest rates play a major role in this, as the ultralow rates since the financial crisis have weighed heavily on banks' top lines by reducing the yields on loans and fixed-income securities. But a stringent and adversarial regulatory approach has been of equal importance. In an effort to stamp out abuses that led to the crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 instituted a number of new, strict rules that banks must abide by. These include tighter capital and liquidity requirements, annual stress tests , and a ban on propriety trading. It also established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has gone on to fine financial institutions more than $10 billion for a variety of consumer abuses in the ...

Gop Has A ‘moral Obligation’ To Fix Obamacare ‘fiasco

... to happen,” Ryan said. “We see this as a rescue operation.”. Ryan added that if they get the replacement of Obamacare right, prices will naturally drop, and that will organically fix a lot of the problems. But he added that a health care mandate is off the table: “We’re not going to have the government make you do something.”. The other issue Ryan spent much of his time Friday discussing was the issue of tax reform and border security, which he sees as intertwined. Regarding the recent policy suggestions coming from the White House related to taxing imports , Ryan says he supports the option. “This isn’t trade policy, it’s tax policy. [And] it’s an elegant solution if you want to get money coming in from Mexico to pay for anything … after we do this, by the way, that means there’s no reason to … outsource your ...

What The Hell Is Wrong With Paul Ryan's Phones

... previously worked with the Sanders campaign created a beautiful workaround called White House Inc. , connecting you to one of Trump’s businesses instead. By not divesting himself from his businesses, he’s actually creating satellite White Houses all over the world. That means we have dozens of phone numbers we can use to reach the president and discuss the issues that matter most. Foreign leaders and Wall Street executives know that if they want to reach out to our President, they can just connect with his business associates. Now the American people have a direct line to Trump too. The conservative Washington Free Beacon claimed, citing anonymous sources, that Democratic Senator Dick Durbin took his phones off the hook after a deluge of calls from “pro-Israel supporters.” (Durbin’s phone lines are working normally as of Friday. “You’re welcome to call,” a baffled, polite young man at his DC office told ...

The Troubled ‘kansas Experiment’ Goes To Washington

... blames that on news media, with the exception of the Fox News Channel, that he thinks dismisses his policies and skims past any successes. Democrats just gained seats in the state Legislature, and some Brownback-friendly conservative Republicans lost to party moderates, in a year where the Republicans put on muscle in state capitals across the country. Kansas’ budget shortfall could top $1 billion by summer 2019 if the state doesn’t raise taxes, cut spending, or both, dramatically. Those revenue problems mark the hangover from Brownback-engineered tax cuts that took hold in 2013. His administration points to broad economic trends for those problems. Yet, the governor’s already signed one tax-hike package. Now he’s looking to load more surcharges onto booze and cigarettes, reroute highway money and cash in tobacco settlement money for a short-term fix. Perhaps most damning of all, the state’s economic growth is flat, lagging even the tepid recession rebound of the country as a whole and the states that surround Kansas. All those things have taken Kansas from a soaring eagle rising on the conservative currents, to a political albatross ...

Ryan Slams Gabbard's Trip To Syria

... Democrat's secret trip to Syria. By Pete Kasperowicz ( @Pete KDCNews ) • 1/27/17 3:45 PM. Pete Kasperowicz News Editor The Washington Examiner __link__ __link__/images/static/authors/Headshot Kasper_Pete.jpg. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday slammed Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, for taking an unsanctioned trip to Syria in which she met with President Bashar Assad, who many policymakers in the U. S. believe is guilty of war crimes against his own people. "No, I would not have advised it at all," Ryan said in a Friday interview with Politico, when asked if her trip was the right thing to do. "I don't think it was right.". "This is not a sanctioned trip. I didn't know about it until after it happened," he added. Ryan said normally House leaders approve trips before they are taken, but he said he wasn't informed it was happening. "That was not an official trip or a sanctioned trip," he said. Stay abreast of the latest ...

Paul Ryan’s Worst Week In Washington

... on Friday in the wake of Trump's executive order restricting refugees from entering the United States and stopping entry of all visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries : "President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country.". Ryan and other Republican leaders are explaining their seeming about-face on Trump's ban by insisting that the executive order doesn't target any particular religion and, therefore, doesn't violate Ryan's stated opposition to barring people from the United States on the grounds of their religious preference. To which I say: Riiiiiiiiiight. What's really happened between Ryan's first statement in December 2015 and his current reaction to the Trump executive order is that Trump got elected president. Back in late 2015, there was considerable doubt that Trump would even emerge as the Republican nominee. He did - and then he won the White House, running, unapologetically, on policies just like this one. Over that time, Ryan found a way to make a sort-of peace with ...

Paul Ryan’s Primary Challenger Warns

... "But if he called me, you know, that's the president calling," he told Business Insider at the Deploraball. "So, they've got my number, and they could always contact me.". Continuing to take aim at Ryan, just as Trump was set to be inaugurated as president, Nehlen said he and his following would "hold Paul Ryan accountable to hold up existing immigration law and build up that wall.". "Just because Trump won doesn't mean things are going to change where they need to change," Nehlen said. "They're going to grind on his immigration proposals and his programs. They'll try to grind it down so we have amnesty.". Asked how he ended up at Deploraball, the Washington, DC, pre-inauguration celebration for some in the alt-right,  a movement  that consists of white nationalists, reactionaries, men's rights activists, and staunch protectionists, among others, Nehlen said the crowd was filled with "comrades.". "I've made friends with a lot of people around the country who were also pulling for Donald Trump, so, being on that side of the fight, we're comrades," he said. "We're brothers in arms. Brothers and sisters in arms. I wanted to come here because these ...

Is Trump Taking Policy Cues From Paul Ryan

... but it was an acknowledgement Trump trusts Ryan. Indeed, a month after the election Trump said during his thank you tour stop in Wisconsin that Ryan was going to “lead the way” on health care and tax changes. On the tax code rewrite, Trump added, “This is where we really need Paul.”. Letting go. Trump, known to hold grudges, seemed to to let go of his Ryan grievances. “He’s like a fine wine,” the teetotaling Trump said at the Wisconsin rally in December. “Every day [that] goes by I get to appreciate his genius more and more.”. In the month and a half since, Trump has continued to compliment Ryan and move toward him on issues where they once diverged. For example, Trump has softened his tone on immigration. Instead of talking about a deportation force targeting millions of undocumented immigrants — something Ryan has called unrealistic — the president has focused on border security and deporting “criminal aliens,” policies Ryan and GOP leaders have long supported — and which are indistinguishable from the policies of President Barack Obama. Trump has also embraced the House GOP on health ...

Facing Intense Criticism, Some Republicans Are Speaking Out Against Trump’s Refugee Ban. Paul Ryan And Mitch Mcconnell Aren’t Among Them

... and the rise of the Islamic State, many more Muslims than Christians have been killed or displaced because of the violence. [ Two Pinocchios for Trump’s claim that it is ‘very tough’ for Christian Syrians to get to the U. S. ]. Ryan said Friday that while he supports the refu­gee resettlement program, he thinks it is time to “reevaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process.”. “President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country,” the speaker said Friday. Other Republicans offered similar support for the order on national security grounds. “President Trump signed an order to help prevent jihadists from infiltrating the United States,” House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael Mc Caul (R-Tex.) said in a statement. “With the stroke of a pen, he is doing more to shut down terrorist pathways into this country than the ...