Paul Ryan

In the wake of RealClearPolitics associate editor and columnist A.B. Stoddard’s criticism of his past debate performances, Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday and placed the blame on Fox News Channel board member and former House Speaker Paul Ryan. According to Trump, Ryan — who joined the board in March of 2019 — is responsible […]

Meghan McCain received a message in honor of her 35th birthday from her longtime “crush,” leaving the opinionated The View star momentarily speechless after a video was played. Since her debut on the daytime talk series, McCain has said on more than one occasion that although she is happily married to co-founder and publisher of […]

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan reportedly wanted to “scold” President Donald Trump due to his lack of knowledge about the functions of government, per a Thursday report from The Washington Post. According to The Washington Post report, Ryan shared these thoughts with Politico’s Tim Alberta, who is about to publish a book about […]

It’s emerged as a frequent political talking point on the right in the Trump years that social media networks are biased against conservatives and too quick to suspend or ban controversial social users if they’re on the political right. Fox News host Laura Ingraham did a segment about just that on Thursday night, but one […]

Paul Ryan told other Republicans that they “should feel free to abandon Trump” in the wake of the bombshell Access Hollywood tape’s release in the final days before the 2016 presidential election, a new tell-all book claims. The Speaker of the House at the time, Ryan carried considerable sway across the party and gave other […]

Former Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) revealed on Tuesday night that when he met with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) just after her election victory, she wasn’t that interested in what advice the former GOP speaker of the House might have to offer her, according to a story in The Hill. However, on hearing that news, Twitter […]

On Monday, former House Speaker Paul Ryan cautioned that President Donald Trump might not have a good chance at re-election, as he believes there are some Democrats who could beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election if he continues to define himself through his personality. According to Politico, Ryan made the above comments at a […]

Paul Ryan’s tenure as Speaker of the House has come to an end, and the Wisconsin Republican will leave Congress as one of the least popular leaders in recent history. On Thursday, the new members of Congress were sworn in, and Democrats regained control. Ryan, the former Speaker of the House, had already announced in […]

The House passed a bill late Thursday that would provide $5 billion in funding for President Trump’s border wall and temporarily avert a government shutdown. The bill is a stopgap measure that would keep the government open through the first week of February, reports CNBC. However, it is unlikely that the bill will pass the […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan delivered one final speech to Congress, a farewell address that praised the work he had done while also lamenting the divided politics. His replacement, Nancy Pelosi, didn’t hear it. As the Hill reported, the expected next speaker of the House said on Thursday that she didn’t listen to her […]

Speaker Paul Ryan, who is retiring from the role of speaker of the House of Representatives at the end of the year, has given a farewell address which bemoaned the state of politics in the U.S. and attacked President Donald Trump’s role in its decline. In the speech, which was delivered in the Library of […]

Democratic New York Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly gets called a fraud daily, in part, for allegedly being elected to the U.S. Congress as a 28-year-old woman. While she’s busy pointing out the multiple flaws and outrages she’s seen as she prepares for her new job, she’s also pointed out something else. A not so shocking […]

Donald Trump has canceled a planned pay raise for federal workers, CNN reports. Under current law, the 2.1 percent across-the-board pay raise was scheduled in 2019 for all civilian federal employees, as well as location-based increases. Trump addressed the decision to forgo the pay increase in a letter to House and Senate leaders on Thursday, […]

John Brennan is confronting the White House after a threat to revoke his security clearance as former director of the CIA. He says that the current administration has a “flawed understanding” of why it is essential for former intelligence officials to retain their security clearances. “I have heard nothing other than what has come out […]

CNN reported Friday that GOP Representative Jason Lewis referred to welfare recipients as “parasites” and “scoundrels” on his old radio show. CNN’s KFile obtained audio recordings from “The Jason Lewis Show” in 2012, in which Lewis speculated over why President Barack Obama was leading in the polls the September before the election. According to the […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan dismissed President Trump’s security clearance revocation threat today and said Trump was just “trolling.” Trump threatened to revoke security clearances of several former intelligence officials that served under President Obama for criticizing Trump and his policies. Ryan told reporters, “I think he’s trolling people, honestly,” ending with a little […]

Both sides of the aisle were swift to speak out against President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb) said the summit was “bizarre.” Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) characterized the meeting as “shameful.” Not to be left out, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) referred to it as […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says that a family of woodchucks ate his car, CNN is reporting. And for the sake of clarity, no, he’s not claiming that the rodents literally ate every last morsel of his vehicle — Ryan was being hyperbolic. But they did render it undriveable, he says. Lots of members […]

Ohio Republican Jim Jordan continues to deny that he ever knew anything about sexual abuse allegations against the team physician when he was the assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State, and his colleague Paul Ryan is attempting to deflect calls for an ethics investigation, CNN is reporting. Calling his colleague a “man of integrity,” House […]

Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page has defied a congressional subpoena to testify about anti-Trump text message exchanges on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Politico reports. The president has referred to the FBI investigation as a “rigged witch hunt” on several occasions. President Trump accused Page and her “FBI lover,” Agent Peter Strzok, of “getting cold […]

Seth Rogen stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Friday and shared a story about a recent encounter he had with Paul Ryan and his children. Celebrities don’t often pass up the free publicity that comes with posing for a picture with someone who’s a household name. It seems, however, that for Seth Rogen, […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan echoed the opinion of fellow Republican Trey Gowdy Tuesday when he said that he has seen no evidence to support President Trump’s claim that the FBI spied on his presidential campaign. A third Republican, Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, voiced his agreement on the issue as well according to […]

The Santa Fe shooting which left 10 people dead, including a number of school students, has prompted another series of protests by students nationwide asking senators to pass common sense gun control laws. As reported by CNN, only a month ago, students at the Santa Fe High School had walked out of their classrooms to […]

House Chaplain Reverend Patrick Conroy was told to resign or he would be fired by Speaker Paul Ryan from the post that Conroy has held since 2011. In response, the House Chaplain proffered a resignation letter that directly addressed the speaker. Now that news of the firing has gone public, Speaker Ryan has backed down […]

House Chaplain Patrick Conroy has proffered his resignation allegedly at the behest of House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. Conroy’s resignation letter says he will step down on May 24, and the date on the letter is April 15. Though Conroy has refused to make any additional comments on the matter, sources from both the […]

After House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he will not run for re-election this year, the playing field is now wide open. When the topic was brought up to Senator Marco Rubio, he made a bold statement: anybody can become the speaker of the house, including Kanye West. Paul Ryan has confirmed that […]

President Donald Trump shocked the world last week when he surprisingly announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. President Trump’s announcement sparked panic in the financial markets as people worried that we might face a trade war if other nations retaliate by imposing tariffs on imported U.S. goods. Trump seemed […]

An exclusive memo obtained by the Intercept and Documented named the Koch brothers as the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump presidency. The billionaire industrialist brothers have traditionally been heavy donors to the conservative agenda, but the memo reveals a staggering depth of planning and foresight in shaping America’s policies under Trump. Apart from funding GOP […]

A potentially racist Meghan Markle tweet by Paul Nehlen, who is hoping to be the GOP’s challenger against House speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s primaries in November this year, has been suspended by Twitter, according to Newsweek. The Inquisitr reported earlier that Nehlen, who has a history of displaying potentially racist behavior, tweeted a superimposed […]

Meghan Markle is being “mocked-up as Cheddar Man” in a picture that was Photoshopped and posted online by a politician running for office on the Republican ticket. It was a shocking image and it was immediately hit with outrage from the masses, which included a former co-worker of Meghan’s from the show she retired from […]

Paul Ryan took to Twitter this weekend to brag about a secretary who will be making an extra $1.50 per week from his GOP tax plan — while the richest Americans make about 173 times more than that amount each week. The House Speaker’s ill-timed tweet came on Saturday morning in response to a story […]

Chaos broke out early on Wednesday afternoon as a train carrying numerous members of Congress to a legislative retreat in West Virginia collided with a truck. The train was carrying a number of Congress members which included House Speaker Paul Ryan, and injuries were being reported right away but none were expected to be serious. […]

Donald Trump has drawn harsh criticism for calling African nations “sh**hole countries” during a DACA meeting last Thursday. The comment was made in front of a bipartisan group of lawmakers as they were attempting to hash out a deal that will protect DACA recipients and increase border security. The president not only rejected the deal, […]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray met with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Wednesday, in what is being described as an unannounced meeting, to discuss the Russia investigation. Rosenstein later left the meeting with a smile on his face, but without answering reporter’s questions. Speculation among Twitter pundits is […]

While POTUS Trump has spent the holiday season touting his accomplishment of bringing “Merry Christmas” back to the White House, not everyone in Washington D.C. is on the receiving end of positive Christmas blessings. Indeed, the queen of the Trump-related Twitter feud, Rosie O’Donnell, had a few short-but-not-sweet words for Paul Ryan, the Speaker of […]

The political career of House Speaker Paul Ryan may soon come to an end, if rumors prove true. Ryan, the Republican Congressman from the first district of Wisconsin, has apparently told some people closest to him that he is planning on retiring after his term as Speaker of the House ends. Ryan apparently told a […]

Blake Shelton will not stand for false gossip and is letting his 20 million Twitter followers know it. In the last hour, Blake penned three lengthy tweets detailing a news story he read about himself having a secret meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan. According to Blake, it’s all bogus. The Voice coach began his […]

Paul Ryan has been widely criticized for his reactions to Donald Trump. But the gloves came off during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. The Speaker of the House got in some very cutting jokes about the president of the United States during the event. Ryan was the keynote speaker at the Al Smith […]

In an article published on Medium, Harvard’s constitutional law professor and former Democratic presidential candidate, Lawrence Lessig, explained how Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation could lead to the Democratic Party presidential candidate Hilary Clinton becoming president. Although Lessig admitted that his suggestions are based on an unlikely “what if” scenario, he said they offer […]

One day after the failure of their latest health care plan which would have repealed the “Obamacare” Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans announced their long-promised tax “reform” plan, a massive proposed program of tax cuts and changes to the tax code that early analysis shows would benefit the wealthiest Americans by slashing […]

President Donald Trump has angered the Republican Party after making a deal with Democrats to raise the United States’ debt ceiling, thus undercutting G.O.P plans and defying his own party’s fiscal policies. Despite President Trump’s unpredictable political allegiances, members of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill are nevertheless disheartened by the Commander-in-Chief’s recent floor-crossing to […]

In an unprecedented move, a long list of Republican lawmakers have come out to condemn President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly protest in Charlottesville last weekend. The coterie includes House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senators Marco Rubio, Todd Young, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, as well as Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Will Hurd, Darrell Issa, […]

After telling Republican leaders last night that he believes the party would look like “dopes” if they are unable to pass a bill to revamp Obamacare, President Donald Trump awoke this morning to news that even his party’s top man in the Senate believes that the effort is all but dead. Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]

Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has made a decision to avoid holding any town hall meetings open to the public, opting instead for closed town hall meetings where most of his constituents are barred from attending and the atmosphere is more controlled. It’s not hard to understand why Ryan has made this decision. […]

Granny has been taken out of the mothballs and this time around she’s got a few more people smiling behind her in the new version of “Save Granny” as Fox News demonstrated on their Monday afternoon news report. A Paul Ryan look-alike is navigating granny in a wheelchair through a wooded park trail in what […]

Republican Senators have recently come under fire for engaging in what has widely been described as clandestine meetings to draft a revised version of the American Health Care Act (ACHA). President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan failed to pass the first incarnation of the bill earlier this year. The first draft of the […]

Despite having recused himself from the Trump Russia investigation, Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes continues to be making headlines over the investigation. This time it has led to a House Ethics complaint against him, launched by the Democratic Coalition. A House Ethics complaint on obstruction of justice has also been filed against Speaker of […]

The House Oversight Committee went public on Twitter yesterday to catch Vice President Mike Pence in a demonstrably false claim regarding the alleged Mike Flynn cover up that is alleged to be part of the larger scale Trump Russia cover up and obstruction of justice. Additionally, The Washington Post reported the news this week that […]

Last night, just after 8 p.m. EST, The Washington Post broke a story that adds even more damaging information to the growing litany of allegations – with rumors of an imminent Trump impeachment swirling – surrounding the major Russiagate scandal currently facing the Trump Administration and the Republican party. During a private, pre-election meeting on […]

Raul Labrador is clearly a man of unusual conviction. While many House and Senate Republicans were attempting to assuage the fears of their constituents about shutting down Obamacare, Labrador – a congressman from Idaho – took an entirely different tack. As reported by CNN, Congressman Labrador contended to a disbelieving audience that “Nobody dies because […]