The political world scrambled in the wake of Donald Trump’s new nuclear threat against North Korea on Twitter, boasting that he has a “bigger & more powerful” nuclear button on his desk, in the latest sign of his total instability and recklessness. But it is important to note that Trump and his “bigger button” would not […]

Flush from ramming through a trillion-dollar Christmas giveaway to wealthy Americans and corporations at the expense of working families, Republicans now seem to think they have a blank check to go after the social safety net. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that in order to fix the massive hole he just blew in the […]

Still enraptured with the novelty of actually being able to pass legislation Congress (note: it’s their job), giddy Republicans in the House are rewarding themselves with an extra week of vacation in January. JUST IN: Members are advised that the House is no longer scheduled to be in session the week of January 1, 2018. […]

At least 19 women have made credible allegations that Donald Trump either sexually assaulted them or made unwanted sexual advances toward them, but Speaker Paul Ryan has callously dismissed their plight as “other stuff” he can’t be bothered with. Ryan appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” to take a victory lap after the passage of the Republican […]

In a matter of hours, Republicans’ tax scam is all but certain to sail through its final vote in the GOP-controlled House, and head to Donald Trump’s desk. And it is already clear that no one is buying House Speaker Paul Ryan’s breathless claims about how much it will grow the economy. Appearing on the “Today” […]

The majority of Americans hate the Republican tax scam. It’s not hard to understand why. A plan to raise taxes on the middle class and cut essential programs to give massive handouts to billionaires and corporations is not going to have support from the very people who would be harmed by such a plan. But […]

Come 2018, House Speaker Paul Ryan might find himself struggling to keep his seat in Congress. That’s according to a new poll, which shows Ryan — one of the most recognizable names in politics — with a shockingly narrow 6-point lead over Randy Bryce, a largely unknown Democratic challenger. Bryce entered the political scene with […]

It is no secret that House Speaker Paul Ryan really, really wants to demolish the social safety net — and the Republican tax scheme that was just rushed through the Senate gets him a step closer to achieving his dream. He is now talking about cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to reduce the deficit, even though […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan has gone missing since former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Reports have indicated that Flynn is set to give special counsel Robert Mueller inside information on actions by Donald Trump, his family, and top administration officials about collusion with Russia and the cover-up […]

The top leadership of the Republican Party — Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan — used the threatening missile launch from North Korea as an excuse to push legislation handing out tax cuts to Trump and other wealthy people. In a statement to the press, Trump complained that Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy […]

In the face of massive losses in multiple elections in 2017, Speaker Paul Ryan wants to make it very clear that Donald Trump and the wider Republican Party are one and the same. Speaking to Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on his radio show, Ryan shook off the GOP losses in Virginia and New Jersey, […]

Speaker Paul Ryan responded to the criminal charges and guilty pleas involving three different officials from the Trump campaign by renewing his push for tax cuts for the wealthy. Even the news that Trump campaign officials have been charged with conspiracy against the United States has not deterred Ryan from sticking to his pursuit of […]

With Republicans on Capitol Hill suddenly scrambling to re-investigate Hillary Clinton and treat her as she were a scandal-ridden president of the United States, Democratic leaders are stressing how transparently partisan the newly announced inquiries are. “This had to be orchestrated with the approval of the speaker of the House,” noted Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan believes that sexual harassment and abuse are repugnant and unacceptable behaviors, and that wherever they occur, the perpetrators must be called out and punished. But his denouncement would mean a lot more if he applied it to the leader of his own party. In an interview with MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt, Ryan […]

Speaker Paul Ryan is threatening to cancel Christmas and conduct a special session of Congress so that he can pass tax breaks for wealthy families like the Trumps. Ryan gave a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation touting the tax scheme he concocted with Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “We’re going to keep […]

As Americans struggle to make sense of the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, GOP lawmakers have been hiding from any discussion of guns. When they get the chance, Republicans try to steer the debate anywhere else. One of their longtime favorite deflections is to say that gun violence is simply a matter of fixing “mental […]

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) gushed that he was “excited” about the Trump tax scam that would raise taxes on the bottom rung of American workers while cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy like Donald Trump and his ultra-wealthy Cabinet. The scheme developed by Trump’s team, along with Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, would change the […]

Speaker Paul Ryan has been left out in the cold as Donald Trump discusses a possible deal with Democratic leaders to solve the DACA issue, and he has now issued a public plea to Trump to remember his own party. Speaking at his weekly press briefing, Ryan told reporters, “I think the president understands that […]

It wasn’t his idea. In fact, he denounced it as “disgraceful” and “unworkable.” But House Speaker Paul Ryan is taking the blame from lots of Republicans for Donald Trump’s stunning decision to stiff GOP leadership and cut a debt limit deal with Democrats in order to get Hurricane Harvey relief funding passed through Congress. Trump’s […]

This time it only took three hours for Donald Trump to humiliate a Republican congressional leader by publicly undercutting him in dramatic fashion. And this time Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was the target of Trump’s erratic behavior. Back from the summer session, Ryan wasted no time Wednesday morning attacking Democrats for their proposals […]

Sister Erica Jordan, the Dominican nun who faced down Speaker Paul Ryan at a town hall broadcast on CNN, said she felt he was patronizing to her, and ducked answering her questions with any substance. Jordan, who is also a retired school principal, asked Ryan why “most of the Republicans in the Congress are not willing to […]

Speaker Paul Ryan laughed and brushed off a voter’s question after she asked him what he plans to do to rein in Donald Trump’s repeated violations of ethical rules and behavior while sitting in the White House. Ryan was addressing a crowd at a town hall being held at Boeing’s facility in Everett, Wisconsin. Ryan […]

On Monday night, House Speaker Paul Ryan finally stopped holding scripted employee meet-and-greets and did a real town hall, where he was met with angry constituents. One of the most awkward exchanges came when Ryan took a question from Sister Erica Jordan, a Dominican nun and retired school principal who wanted to know why Ryan’s actions in […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is still in search of his spine, and apparently his conscience, as well. Monday morning, Ryan issued a rather belated statement on the white supremacist riot a week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he condemned the hateful ideology of the neo-Nazis and declared that “there is no moral relativism” when […]

Someone please lend House Speaker Paul Ryan a compass and a flashlight, because he needs to set off on a search and rescue mission for his spine. It has been over a week since a mob of neo-Nazis wrecked havoc in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulting in the death of one woman and injuring nearly two dozen […]

With a nickname like “Iron Stache,” it’s clear that Wisconsin Democrat Randy Bryce is a force to be reckoned with. And now he has proved that by managing to shame House Speaker Paul Ryan, whom Bryce is running to unseat, into finally holding a public town hall for the first time in nearly two years, […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is having a terrible year. And it’s about to get worse. Ryan was forced into the job by his party after then-Speaker John Boehner unexpectedly quit in frustration with the uber-extremist wing of the GOP caucus. And for Ryan, it’s been one failure after another ever since. Despite complete Republican control […]

Randy “Iron Stache” Bryce, the Army veteran and union ironworker running against House Speaker Paul Ryan, has a stinging assessment of Ryan and his party’s leadership. “Now they’re in the driver’s seat,” Bryce told Shareblue in an exclusive interview, “and the car won’t start.” That’s part of why Ryan is so deeply unpopular. In July, […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is not what one would call “well-liked” these days. As Shareblue’s Kaili Joy Gray put it, Ryan is “shockingly unpopular, even for Paul Ryan.” A recent Bloomberg poll showed that only 34 percent of the American public have a favorable view of Ryan, which is both a sharp decline from the […]

Donald Trump and his allies in Congress, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have failed to deliver on their campaign promise of repealing Obamacare, so now Republicans are back to promoting the useless border wall. Ryan signaled the return to the issue, which motivated base Republican voters during the 2016 primary to […]