Paul Ryan: Obama’s Budget Exploits Our Problems

By Brian Beutler

April 1, 2009 7:01 a.m.

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More budget news to come, but in the mean time, here’s Paul Ryan himself paving the way for the introduction of his budget, some of the basic details of which can be found here.

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Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) Brian Beutler is TPM's senior congressional reporter. Since 2009, he's led coverage of health care reform, Wall Street reform, taxes, the GOP budget, the government shutdown fight and the debt limit fight. He can be reached at brian@talkingpointsmemo.com

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