WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement regarding an Obama administration memo detailing its political strategy to veto the national defense bill, which includes a pay raise for our troops:

“For this administration, it's always politics first, even at the Pentagon. This memo details with relish a plan to use a presidential veto of a defense bill as a 'weapon.' It's shameless, and it threatens more than five decades of bipartisan cooperation to enact a national defense bill for our troops. The men and women who defend our country deserve better."

This memo details with relish a plan to use a presidential veto of a defense bill as a “weapon.”

It’s shameless.https://t.co/GlVHEzzwx3

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) September 6, 2016