Ryan talks a good game about caring about poverty and rejecting the “makers versus takers” frame of many conservatives. But in his time as a national figure, he’s been a consistent advocate of aggressive cuts to the social safety net and to Social Security and Medicare, and for tax reforms at least as regressive as those envisioned by Cruz and Trump.
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