They are breaking this studio down like this afternoon. It's the end of an era for Paul Ryan

The end of an era for the temporary podcast studio

Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media podcast network. I'm Matthew Glacias

I'm really excited to be joined today by Sarah Cliff and Dylan Scott and we are going to talk about all pay or rate setting

The hot news of the week

It's been a really busy week, you know, it's like James Comey's book is out

Something happened with Michael Cohen, but like really the news that is driven the week that is dominated

Conversation is a California

It's not quite all pay. It's like most pay or rate setting I would say yeah, I think that's anyway it drove

Staggering levels of public interest so we wanted to put this together

But but first we are gonna talk a little bit about Paul Ryan who is not going to be a speaker of the house anymore

He's retiring from Congress. He said and you know, there's been a lot of discussion obviously about him and his legacy

But I think you Dylan had a really good piece about a sort of policy legacy of Ryan's that is is caring forward

Very much in conservative politics even as he fades from the scene personally and that's on Medicaid

Right, it all fits with the frame that you've put on his announcement that he would retire

Which is that you know Paul Ryan has not really he did not sell out to Donald Trump if anything Donald Trump ended up adopting

Many of his policy positions and I think Medicaid is a telling example of that

Canada Trump said in no uncertain terms that he would not cut Medicaid along with Medicare or Social Security and

Whereas you know Paul Ryan has apparently been dreaming since he was a kid about

Cutting Medicaid and overhauling the program. This is like an actual thing. He said he said he yeah

He said he was doing keg stands in college dreaming of block granting Medicaid

He is drinking out of a kid. Yeah, of course. It's a totally normal thing to be doing anyway

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