The speaker of the house Paul Ryan announced that he is on his way — and he protects presidents Donald trump to the bitter end.
On Wednesday morning, Ryan told reporters that he would not run for re-election in November of this year, following the standard framework: he wants to see his children, and as a gift to her husband. But in his closing remarks at the press conference was perhaps the most poignant. Asked if the reorganization of trump from the Republican party played a role in his decision, Ryan said: “nothing.”
“I am grateful to the President for giving us the opportunity to bring the country on the right path,” he said. “The fact that he has given us the opportunity to finish this, makes me proud of the achievements that I was the culprit. It makes me happy that I made a big difference and he gave us this chance and I thank him for that, and that’s really how I see it.”
His defense of the tramp on its own is not particularly surprising: Ryan is a man of the party. But it is also a perfect articulation calculation — or perhaps miscalculation — the Republicans did to trump.
Over the past 15 months, Ryan went from a man who once held the moral high ground for trump, condemning his comments as “racist” and “unacceptable” whoever refuses behavior trump as a political neophyte. He downplayed the investigation campaign and presidency, trump and trump is exempt of racism, xenophobia and violations of discipline. He watched trump to abandon conservative beliefs on trade and immigration and was forced to spin often the President politically vague ideas.
And yet, says Ryan two words trump presidency: tax cuts.
Ryan sat down at the tramp to push his own agenda
Ryan never had a close personal relationship with trump. The two have a working relationship, but trump reportedly believes Ryan dry, and he called it “boy scout,” sources told politico. The dynamics of their relationship had been established before.
When Ryan endorsed trump as a Republican candidate, he approves his own agenda.
“It’s a question about how to move forward on the ideas that my colleagues and I at home — so much invested in these years. It’s not just a choice between two people, but two visions of America,” Ryan wrote in an OP-ed in his hometown paper, the Janesville Gazette, supporting trump in 2016.
At the beginning of the trump for President, Congressional Republicans, controlling both houses of Congress and the White house, to set forward an ambitious agenda. They would repeal and replace obamacare in a few months, pass a major budget deal, and make massive tax cuts.
Now, with Congress unlikely to accomplish much more this year, Ryan said he leaves proud of what he did these two things.
“Probably the two biggest achievements for me, firstly, major changes in the Tax code for the first time in 36 years, which is already a huge success for our country, and that’s what I worked for all my adult life,” Ryan told reporters at $1.5 trillion. the tax cuts the Republicans passed at the end of 2017 — a law that was widely cooked as a benefit to corporations and the ultra rich are deprived.
“Something I focused on becoming speaker, to restore our country, the army, and after working with our military readiness crisis, which is one of the main priorities that we did last year,” Ryan brought his second achievement, referring to the $1.3 trillion spending bill, which put the military funding at historical levels will keep the government open until September.
Of course, it is very narrow and rosy to read in a year that was made a lot more Politics and gossip than politics.
Working with Ryan was hard. Trump has made it virtually impossible.
Rate Ryan on trump as a vehicle to push major conservative reforms — was one of many Republicans did.
In many ways, the conservatives have made significant progress in the past year due to the cancellation of the White house push and a wave of conservative candidate judges.
But they also estimate that underestimated the trump card — its volatility, rates his willingness to Express his opinion, his inexperience in office.
After a month of very prominent party feuds, to repeal obamacare is not epic — largely because of a lack of clarity from the White house. Republicans spent most days apologizing trump’s tweets, and the White house scandals. And while Republicans managed to pass the tax cuts, lawmakers have worried the bill will not be popular enough in November to help them win elections. This week, the congressional budget Office said the tax bill will contribute over $ 1.5 trillion deficit. Paired with a spending bill, spending and the deficit will increase by 11.7 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.
Ryan says he’s proud of the tax cuts and rebuilding the military. But trump, who seems not very interested in either, stuck on a heated investigation into his campaign and is pushing policies that only deepens the party divides, from arms control and trade to immigration reform.
In Washington, Ryan has long established itself as a conservative ideologue with a clear agenda. Trump couldn’t care less.
Sourse: vox.com
