Highs and lows of Ryan's Career:
Bice: Forever tied to Trump, Paul Ryan leaves behind a mixed record over 20 years
High: For years, Ryan had promoted a tax plan of income and corporate rate cuts by ditching some popular tax breaks. In the end, he did his part in pushing a different tax package —
one with gimmicks such as temporary tax cuts for individuals — through the House and onto the president's desk.
But one thing was left unclear: Ryan said in December that
"nobody knows" if the plan would pay for itself.
Low: Now we know. On the day before Ryan announced his impending retirement, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the federal government will see
budget deficits exceeding $1 trillion beginning in 2020 due to the tax bill and GOP spending plans.
That is not the vision provided by Ryan, the self-described budget hawk, in his now-remaindered
Road Map for America's Future.
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It's like every time there was a high, the truth comes out and it's a low.