Elizabeth Warren eviscerates Paul Ryan’s breathtakingly bad budgets, nails roots of GOP’s dysfunction

Paul Ryan is the new Speaker of the House and Elizabeth Warren is none too impressed

Sophia Tesfaye

Paul Ryan was just elected the 62nd Speaker of the House to succeed John Boehner and attempt the impossible task of herding cats, beginning with his House GOP conference. Ryan, who for years has been lauded as the smartest man in Washington, D.C. by a fawning beltway press, was deemed palatable enough for the hardcore right-wing extremist in his caucus to save House Republicans from themselves, but Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not impressed.

Speaking at a Politico event on Wednesday, Warren admitted that she has had limited interactions with Ryan on the Hill but said that she’s learned all she needs to know about his leadership abilities and priorities as the next Speaker by reading his budget proposals, which Warren called “truly breathtaking.”