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Romney: Ryan on ‘Same Page’

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Vow to restore $716 billion to trust fund.

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Mitt Romney is pushing back at critics and trying to highlight the differences between his plans for Medicare and Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. Romney promised to “restore that $716 billion to the Medicare trust fund,” which his campaign has accused President Obama of trying to “rob” to pay for his health-care plan. Critics have said that Ryan’s budget plan incorporates the same $700 billion in savings. But Romney says they are running on his budget, not Ryan’s, adding, “I’d get us to a balanced budget faster than the plan [Ryan] originally put forward” and that his proposed highest tax rate of 28 percent is higher than Ryan’s.

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