office and i scroll twitter to see which tweets that i ll have to pretend that i did not see later on. very funny. i want to be clear, we re not applying a random standard on paul ryan here to confronting trump. we are applying the paul ryan standard. he said he d stand up to trump. he proclaimed trump s comments were textbook racist and then even when he had the second most powerful post in washington after the presidency, as speaker paul ryan famously folded. now, what about ryan s other major stated passion, the hunger to balance the budget and cut the deficit, which animateed his early rise. he even co-authored a book republican young guns who take on the at that time and sold himself as a new school legislator, a guy as tough on deficits as he was in the gym. pull-ups, pushups, sit-ups,
had the speaker s gavel. whatever you think about their ideology, nutri and nancy pelosi got several major bills through their house when they were speaker on all kinds of issues. paul ryan basically jammed two major bill votes, only one of which became law, which is the one that grew the deficit. that s ryan s report card. the accountability may already be kicking in. many of ryan s co-workers just lost their jobs coming out of his tenure. democrats experience a massive blue wave, they ve gained 40 seats in the house. that s adding a new seat tonight. the largest gain in decades. it is a shotty, hypocritical and, frankly, embarrassing record. i don t say that as an outside opinion, i m judging paul ryan tonight through the facts and on the paul ryan standard. the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. with one notable exception.
lots of cardio, karate, jump training, yoga. we think we ought to contain and control and cut spending. we think we ought to get our deficits down, not up. we believe that we owe the american people a responsible balanced budget. balanced budget. deficits down, not up. that was ryan s pitch. we all heard it. and then he got the gavel and he wielded it during two different presidencies. and, again, i m just going to use the paul ryan standard, he failed. ryan became speaker in 2015 when there was a roughly $438 billion deficit he and oversaw the growth of that deficit to $793 billion. it s now on track to surpass $1 trillion. wow. so whether you think the deficit s, like, super important or not as important, let s be clear, as paul ryan prepares to leave his big job, he ran on cutting it. we think the wrong answer is