Paul Ryan

Amid intra-party chaos surrounding tax proposals, Height Securities analysts posted 85-percent odds of Congress passing a bill prior to 2018 elections — and offered a “sleeper pick” of the modified 2014 tax reform draft at 10 percent odds. “We continue to get the sense in...

Following a major defeat on healthcare last week, President Donald Trump initially said the administration now plans to move on from healthcare to address tax reform. However, House Speaker Paul Ryan and even Trump himself have since indicated they will continue to push for a healthcare deal. 'We'...

White House officials are preparing to brief President Donald Trump Thursday on options for comprehensive tax reform, according to a Bloomberg report. As far as is known, the presentation will include House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Better Way” plan featuring a destination-based cash...

Following the failure of the healthcare bill, the Trump administration is planning a bipartisan effort to concurrently drive tax reform and infrastructure spending, Axios reported Monday. While the approach would herald a major shift in White House strategy, it's far from novel — even in...

Tax overhauls proposed by President Donald Trump and the House GOP leadership will lead to short-term gains but long-term increases in the federal debt, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which crunched the numbers for both plans up until the year 2040. “They are cutting taxes...

Jeffrey Saut, Raymond James' chief financial officer, believes the "Trump rally" has come to an end and will be immediately followed by a selloff. Saut explained to CNBC on Friday that stocks will see selling pressure on Monday as a direct result of President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul...

Acting on orders from President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan led Republicans to pull the proposed healthcare bill from the House docket Friday. “We just didn’t quite get consensus today,” Ryan said at a press conference. “We came very close, but we could not...

Stock market sentiment is in a quandary: Optimism is high because of President Donald Trump’s promise to invest in infrastructure and overhaul the tax code. However, the GOP says those and other policy issues are on hold until Congress deals with the seemingly intractable issue of swapping...

Making ends meet has become increasingly tough for the United States, and as expenses burgeon, the government has no other recourse but to bank on borrowings to keep the show going. This brings up the question of whether the United States can keep on borrowing to meet the ever-widening budgetary...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing off against U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan over a Republican plan to impose higher tariffs on imports, a key part of the GOP’s tax overhaul. At issue is the so-called “border adjustment tariff,” part of a corporate plan that would...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is expected to release its score for the controversial new healthcare bill on Monday. The new plan spearheaded by House Speaker Paul Ryan aims at replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The CBO is expected to deliver estimates of both how much the new plan...

President Donald Trump has found able allies among the corporate sector for his Border Adjustment Tax. Some blue chip corporations, thriving primarily on domestic business and exports, have banded themselves under the "American Made Coalition" and written to Congress to accelerate the...

If Donald Trump is going down in November, it appears as if he is going out in a blaze of glory. After a disastrous weekend in which a 2005 Access Hollywood tape revealed Trump using extremely sexually aggressive language toward women, a number of Republicans have withdrawn support for the...

Following Sunday night’s presidential debate, billionaire Donald Trump supporter Carl Icahn announced that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City will be closing. Trump built the Taj Mahal in 1990 for $1 billion and called the resort the “eighth wonder of the world.” However, parent...

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) has overtaken the senate floor Wednesday, protesting for action on gun control policy. Democrats are supporting Lewis, opting to literally sit on the floor to make a statement against the Senate voting down gun control legislation earlier this week. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)...