Paulsen and Lewis have voted for the Ryan-Trump agenda more than 95% of the time, despite representing politically moderate districts
Speaker Paul Ryan traveled to Minnesota yesterday to boost the flailing campaigns of Republican Congressmen Jason Lewis (MN-02) and Erik Paulsen (MN-03). Ryan’s visit is a reward for the duo’s unabashed support of harmful GOP priorities, like trying to gut health care for millions of Americans and voting for huge tax cuts to billionaires and wealthy special interests that have caused a massive national deficit.
“It’s no surprise Paul Ryan is in Minnesota campaigning with his friends Erik Paulsen and Jason Lewis,” said DFL Chair Ken Martin. “Lewis helped Ryan pass a trillion dollar tax giveaway to the billionaires and special interests who fund their political operation, and Paulsen has been a proud rubber stamp for the Ryan-Trump agenda, voting in lockstep with Republican leadership more than 96% of the time.
“With their votes to strip health care from millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions, to a trillion dollar tax giveaway to billionaires and wealthy corporations, Erik Paulsen and Jason Lewis have made it all too clear that they’re more interested in standing with Washington Republicans than standing up for Minnesota families.”
Even as Speaker Ryan prepares to leave Congress, Minnesota Republicans are asking voters to send them back to Washington to carry on his work by slashing Medicare and Social Security to fill the $1.9 trillion budget hole they created with their reckless tax cuts.