Ryan: Obama can not Be Trusted On Immigration

Republican Paul Ryan from Wisconsin (US) was elected as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on October 29, 2015.

In multiple interviews that aired Sunday, Ryan explained he is taking on the job knowing that he can not pick up where Boehner left off. He said the House needs a clean slate, and he outlined four main changes he wants to make in his interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”.

This was after Speaker Ryan vowed to conduct business in a different manner than former House Speaker John Boehner.

Ryan told several news outlets on Sunday that he would not work with Obama on the matter, “since the president’s unilateral actions to give legal protections to a few of the undocumented had poisoned the proverbial well”, The Huffington Post reported.

That’s where former House Speaker John Boehner comes in. “The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself”.

“Oh, I pulled it all out”, Boehner said. “We’re just kicking the can down the road”, he said in a statement at the time. Democrats say Ryan is hypocritical given his recent comments about his desire to spend time with his children on weekends.

Ryan was elected after weeks of internal turmoil within the House Republican conference. “And that’s a bill that I think is a great idea”.

Ryan also said he would continue to sleep on a cot in his Capitol Hill office. “We have been too timid for too long around here”, Ryan said.

Though he declared early on that he would not run in 2016, there was a few push to get Ryan into the race.

Well, Republican-in-name-only Ryan, you are adding to the nation’s problems by failing to address our unsustainable national debt by doing what politicians do: kick the can down the road.

Ryan, who was the Republican Party’s 2012 vice-presidential nominee, was careful not to wade into discussion around the fight for the Republican nomination, saying that he would remain neutral until the party chooses its candidate.

Asked if he is going to be able to get the smell of smoke out of the place, the fitness-conscious congressman said, “That’s a really good question”. “I just do a few yoga”.

During the interview, the new speaker laid out his priorities to return to “regular order” and pass legislation using the committee process, seek common ground with other lawmakers, serve as a check on the Obama administration’s power and to present bold policy proposals.

A defense policy bill initially vetoed by Obama in a now-resolved dispute over spending levels is likely to be reworked, and the Senate will attempt to get a repeal of Obama’s health care law to his desk.