Paul Ryan Deletes Tweet Praising Tax Cuts for Giving Secretary $1.50 Raise to Pay for Costco Membership

Deletion Followed Quick Backlash

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan quickly deleted a tweet on Saturday that praised the Republican tax cut bill for the rich for allowing a high school secretary to pay for her Costco membership with a $1.50 a week raise.

“A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, PA, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week,” the tweet read. “… she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year.”

Ryan had quoted the tweet by AP Business News, seen below:

The tweet’s deletion was likely due to an almost immediate backlash: