Ryan Says 'I Share' Trump's Budgetary 'Frustration,' Defends Health Bill [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published MAY 2, 2017 11:14 AM
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) defended Republicans’ amended plan to repeal and replace Obamacare Tuesday and said he shared “the President’s frustration” about the budgeting process, as expressed in a pair of presidential tweets.
Early on Tuesday, apparently frustrated by a five-month budget agreement which he achieved nearly none of his policy goals, Trump advocated for an old fashioned government shutdown to knock some sense into Congress — or a change to filibuster rules.
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At a GOP leadership press conference, Ryan said “I share the President’s frustration” that appropriations bills had to receive enough bipartisan support to avoid a Senate filibuster. But the Speaker put on a brave face to portray the compromise budget as a win, emphasizing its defense and border patrol spending.
“I feel very good about the wins that we got with the administration in this bill,” Ryan said. “Look, I negotiated the first Murray-Ryan agreement a number of years ago. Under the Obama rules, if you wanted to help the military, if you wanted a pay raise for the soldiers, if you wanted to buy new airplanes and new ships and more munitions, a dollar for that, you had to have a dollar for domestic spending. We just broke that parity. That’s the biggest victory we could have had.”
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