Ryan: We’ll Focus On Obamacare, Tax Code, Reducing Regulations Next Year

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2016, to unveil the national security plank of the Republican agenda and discuss recommendations from their ... House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2016, to unveil the national security plank of the Republican agenda and discuss recommendations from their Congressional National Security Task Force. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday morning listed three priorities that Congress plans to tackle next year when Donald Trump is in the Oval Office.

Ryan said that Congress will address Obamacare, make changes to the tax code, and roll back regulations.

“That is what a unified Republican government will be about,” he said.

Ryan listed three of the four priorities he offered last week in a radio interview, but absent in his list this week was securing the border.

The speaker touted Republicans’ victory in the 2016 election and said that they believed that if they “won the election by campaigning on solutions and ideas, we would be ready to govern.”

“And here we are,” he said.

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  1. Ryan said that Congress will address Obamacare, make changes to the tax code, and roll back regulations.

    Amen to that. Corporate America spends entirely too much money on safety glasses, marked exit signs and fire extinguishers.
  2. Perhaps this time, the money that we give to billionaires via tax cuts will really trickle down.

  3. Apparently Ryan didn’t read the memo:

    Next year’s plan:

    1. Pull Trump International in DC from the edge of going bankrupt

    2. Secure the tax incentives for the new Trump tower at the new Taipei airport and commercial zone. Currently one
      of the largest construction projects in the world planned to build a world class airport and commercial zone.

    3. Privatize our military academies under Trump U. and make it a charter school with vouchers.

    4. Help the Koch brothers build the Keystone pipeline

  4. Holding my breath - NOT. It’s all trickling to Panama and the Cayman Islands.

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