Ryan served 20 years in the House, ascending to Speaker (Oct 2015 to Jan 2019). This profile grades his 2016-cycle Speaker tenure (Jan 2017-Jan 2019), the most consequential window covering the 115th Congress under unified Republican control. He chose not to seek re-election in 2018.
Paul Ryan kept 6 of 10 scored promises, but broke two major ones. He pledged to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act—that never happened. He also promised to reform Medicare and Social Security, which did not occur during his tenure. The bundle does not yet contain detailed donor breakdowns or vote-by-vote alignment with specific industries, so we cannot yet show how his top funders may have influenced particular bills. His kept promises included other commitments across his career.
Narrated from FEC + Congress.gov receipts. Every figure traces to our data.
Jr. kept 60% of 10 promises tracked for the 2017–2019 term. Each verdict is term-scoped, primary-sourced, and reviewed by three sequential reviewers (neutral · conservative · progressive).
Standard review · primary sources, single editorial pass.
Paul Davis Ryan Jr.'s campaign-promise scorecard: 60% kept of 10 graded. Source: campaignreceipts.com/r/paul-ryan
Primary-source promise tracker, campaignreceipts.com.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed April 7, 2017 (54-45). Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed Oct 6, 2018 (50-48). 85 Article III judges were confirmed during Ryan's speakership, including 30 circuit-court judges.
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 raised defense caps by $80B for FY2018 and $85B for FY2019. The John S. McCain NDAA for FY2019 (Pub.L. 115-232) authorized $717B in defense spending, an $82B increase over FY2017.
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