Paul Ryan: Entitlement reform is the policy goal that ‘got away’

By Susan Ferrechio

Published April 30, 2018 8:27pm ET

Paul Ryan: Entitlement reform is the policy goal that ‘got away’ — Paul Ryan. | (Andrew Harnik/AP)

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he decided to retire in part because he was able to accomplish many of his top goals, including a massive overhaul of the tax code.

But Ryan admitted to The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes on Monday that he’ll leave Congress next year without having reformed the nation’s entitlement programs, which he has been working to do since arriving in Congress in 1999.