POLITICS/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host, is a longtime friend of President Trump. So when Mr. Trump said on Twitter on Saturday — a day after his crushing defeat in the House on health care — that people should watch her show that night, political observers began guessing what was in […]
Category: Paul Ryan
3/24/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, rushed to the White House Friday [3-24-17] afternoon to inform President Trump he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration. The […]
3/23/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House hopes to vote on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare Friday [3-24-17] morning, following a day of drama and multiple high-level, tension-filled meetings, a White House official said. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have been lobbying members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and also moderate […]
3/14/2017
ECONOMY/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PAUL RYAN: “I’ve [David Lazarus] tried to avoid wonkiness and political ideology. As Rebitzer said, this is a matter of the laws of economics, and those laws are clear: You can’t have affordable and comprehensive coverage for everyone without getting everyone, young and old, sick and healthy, into the system. ‘People are going to do […]
3/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/POLITICS/ PAUL RYAN: “On a never-before-released private October conference call with House Republican members, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his members in the U.S. House of Representatives he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump forever and would never defend him ever again. In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access […]
2/27/2017
POLITICS/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s hard to overstate how much is on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plate right now. He presides over a restive group of Republicans who deposed his predecessor. He’s dealing with a new president who — even on his best days — refuses to stick to the script and has no trouble […]