House Speaker Paul Ryan tours Harlem charter school

Published May 9, 2017 10:59pm ET



Paul Ryan’s detractors have spent recent weeks excoriating the Speaker for allegedly failing to demonstrate adequate concern for the poor, yet when he showed at a Harlem charter school that caters to low-income students on Tuesday, he was met with protesters. Sometimes you just can’t win.

According to reports, protesters gathered outside the school expressed outrage over both the American Health Care Act and Ryan’s decision to visit a charter school, though they appeared to focus mostly on the former.

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