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And to those who don't believe me that the balanced budget amendment was a longtime Paul Ryan dream:

Here he is doing it in 2018:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/republicans-consider-balanced-budget-amendment-after-adding-more-than-1-trillion-to-the-deficit/

Here he is opposing it in 2011 because he wanted an even tougher version:
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/11/balanced-budget-amendment-rejected-068695

Here's an article explaining how the amendment is really just a ploy to cut Social Security and Medicare:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/11/gop-balanced-budget-amendment-shred-medicare-social-security-column/497678002/

This is what Joe Biden bragged about supporting, decades before Paul Ryan became Speaker. I'm not saying he's the second coming of Paul Ryan, not in the slightest, but he has terrible instincts for a Democrat. He's not just a centrist, he's bad at being a centrist.