Republicans have an extremely high opinion of Paul Ryan.
In an appearance on Fox News last night, Kevin McCarthy — one of the co-authors of Young Guns — once again raised the possibility of Republicans defunding the health care bill if the GOP retakes the House in November.
In doing so, McCarthy imagined a standoff between Congress and the White House over the federal budget, with Republican budget maestro Paul Ryan staring down and outsmarting President Barack Obama.
“The president can’t spend a dime without the approval of Congress,” said host Sean Hannity. “So you guys will have a lot of power if you just have divided government.”
“Could you only imagine with Paul Ryan being chairman of the Budget Committee?” McCarthy replied rhetorically. “Not only would we have the power, but Paul would outsmart the President each and every time.”
As budget chairman, Ryan would have a great deal of authority to set overall spending levels for the executive departments implementing the health care law, but would have little discretion over how those departments allocated their budget. The President does not sign the Congress’ budget resolution.
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