“We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.”

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About Paul Ryan

American former politician

Paul Davis Ryan is an American former politician. He served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, and represented Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1999 to 2019. A Republican, he was also his party's vice presidential nominee in the 2012 presidential election, running alongside Mitt Romney. He is known for his long tenure in Congress and for holding one of the highest offices in the House.

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