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Testing The Honeymoon: Can Trump And Ryan Find Agreement On Medicare Funding?
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R- Wis., has gone out of his way to accommodate the president-elect's wishes since November, but their profound differences on whether to move toward making Medicare a voucher program could come to a head this spring, Politico reports.
Politico: Ryan And Trump Set For Medicare Showdown
Since the election, Paul Ryan has accommodated and deferred to Donald Trump on all sorts of issues they don’t see eye-to-eye on. But when it comes to Ryan’s career-defining cause — overhauling Medicare and other entitlements — the speaker has held his ground. The clashing philosophies between the GOP's two top pols — Trump once called Ryan's doctrine "political suicide" — is about to come to a head. Left unresolved, it threatens to sink tax reform, a top priority for both men. (Bade, 1/17)
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