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Paul Ryan will be remembered for strengthening the US military

By Tom Rogan

Published April 11, 2018 8:36pm ET

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Paul Ryan will be remembered for strengthening the US military — "Next year is going to be the year where we work on people," House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters who asked about his welfare reform plan at his weekly news conference. "Next year is the year we work on getting people where they need to get in life, in better jobs, an actual career, closing the skills gap." | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

History will be kind in recording the tenure of Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as speaker of the House of Representatives, but not abundantly so.

After all, Ryan has failed in his primary ambition: reforms to address the nation’s catastrophic debt trajectory. Here, Ryan was unable to persuade the president of the necessity of entitlement reform, nor to mobilize a Republican caucus toward hard choices, nor to find bipartisan compromise with a Democratic Party devoted to debt.

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