Paul Ryan Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Assessment of Speaker tenure === [[File:Speaker-Paul-Ryan-Portrait.jpg|250px|thumb| Official portrait by Leslie W. Bowman, 2023]] Following Ryan's retirement announcement, an article in ''The Washington Post'' stated that Ryan was "leav[ing] behind a legacy of dramatically expanded government spending and immense deficits, a GOP president unchecked, a broken immigration system, and a party that's fast abandoning the free-trade principles that he himself championed."<ref name=":1" /> According to the Associated Press, Ryan "achieved one of his career goals: rewriting the tax code"; however, "on his other defining aim—balancing the budget and cutting back benefit programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—Ryan has utterly failed".<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/the-associated-press-speaker-ryan-will-leave-behind-new-tax-code-busted-budget.html|title=Speaker Ryan will leave behind new tax code, busted budget|last=Taylor|first=Andrew|date=April 11, 2018|publisher=CNBC|access-date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page