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Recently, after over two decades of an unnecessary U.S. military presence in Niger, the U.S. finally withdrew from the West African country. I, for one, never believed we should have been there in the first place and warned our presence was doing more harm than good. Congress never authorized sending troops to Niger. Last year, I was right to demand their withdrawal. Why waste our money and risk our troops’ lives for a hostile country? In over a decade, civilian lives were lost, U.S. service members were killed, millions of taxpayer dollars were spent, and we have nothing to show...

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced the “Six Penny Plan,” a federal budget proposal aimed at balancing the nation’s finances within five years by cutting six cents from every dollar of projected spending. “Seven years ago, we could balance our budget with a freeze in spending without cutting anything. Since then, our national debt has skyrocketed to over $35 trillion with $6.6 trillion just in the past four years. Americans across the nation are struggling to make ends meet while their government recklessly spends and fuels the inflation crisis,” said Dr. Paul. “The greatest threat to our national security...

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is attempting to get to the bottom of the Transportation Security Administration’s watchlist and blacklist programs following several high-profile cases and whistleblowers scrutinizing these TSA systems. “Recent disclosures from whistleblowers raise serious concerns that these mechanisms may have been improperly employed to target individuals based on their political views and participation in constitutionally protected activities, rather than legitimate security threat,” the Kentucky Republican wrote to TSA Administrator David Pekoske in a Wednesday letter shared with The Daily Signal. Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly among the victims of this effort to surveil and control...

MOSCOW, May 6. (RIA Novosti) - U.S. and Russian approaches to the development of democracy on post-Soviet territory may not coincide, but that does not mean they should argue, says Dimitri Simes, an American political expert and president of the Nixon Center, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, a popular daily. In his opinion, when the U.S. president arrives in Moscow to attend the celebrations marking the end of WWII, the U.S. side will display its "great desire to achieve mutual understanding on a number of issues." The U.S. expert singles out Russian-U.S. interaction on the post-Soviet territory as a...

BREAKING: Podesta emails prove that Hillary and Obama were planning to spread the "Trump is involved w/ Russia" lies since April! #Vault7 (note: Podesta e-mail dated 4/27/2016 and mentions Dimitri Simes) *********** The timing of that Podesta email coincides with the April 27, 2016 foreign policy speech Trump gave: "On Wednesday, April 27, the Center for the National Interest’s magazine "The National Interest" hosted leading Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump for a foreign policy speech as a part of its continuing coverage of the 2016 electoral campaign. Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq,...

COLUMBIA, Ky. (WBKO) - Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Pennsylvania rally on television with his wife Saturday, when the shots were fired at the former president, shocking the nation. “As this unfolded, we were horrified by it. We still are,” Paul said. “Violence, of course, has no place in our in our country.” After addressing the crowd at an appearance in Columbia on Monday, Paul spoke with the media about the attempted assassination, echoing the comments of many government officials, urging political leaders to “calm down the rhetoric.” “I’m sure there’s rhetoric on the...

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, making her as the the first Hispanic judge to hold this position. The confirmation came despite a chorus of objections from Republicans who pointed out her massive backlog of trial court cases. The Senate voted 47-43, which hears appeals from Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. This marks the fifth judge appointed by Joe Biden to be confirmed to the court, according to Reuters. Maldonado’s elevation is part of Biden and the Democrats’ agenda to stack the judiciary with liberal figures despite...

Senator J.D Vance (R-OH) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he supported Americans having access to abortion pill Mifepristone Host Kristen Welker said, “Let me move on to my next question. I want to talk about the Heritage Foundation. It’s a conservative think tank in Washington. It shapes the agenda they would like to see in a Trump second term.”

Anthony Fauci is still getting a taxpayer-funded security detail and SUV, despite retiring from his $480,000-a-year government job 18 months ago. Now a top Republican has accused the former White House COVID advisor of trying to get 'sympathy' by claiming extremists want to kill him and he is the target of death threats. During the publicity tour to promote his new book, 83-year-old Fauci recently said he is scared 'deep down, that there's a possibility that somebody's gonna kill me.' But that is just a strategy to 'develop empathy and sympathy' and paint 'Republicans as creating this danger,' Sen. Rand...

Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.Did COVID-19 originate in a lab? To answer this question, let's revisit the early days of the pandemic and examine what some of Anthony Fauci's inner circle said privately about the origins of the virus—discussions that were only revealed through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen wrote, "The lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario." Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin...

@AmericaRpts LISTEN: @RandPaul joins @SandraSmithFox after today's Senate hearing on the origins of COVID-19 to discuss the role of several prominent scientists in suppressing the lab leak theory, and to react to the latest from Dr. Fauci's book media tour. #AmericaReports

WASHINGTON — Like every other Kentucky Republican on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticized the New York criminal case that ended in a guilty verdict for former President Donald Trump. Paul posted on social media, “This verdict will tragically undermine Americans’ confidence in impartial justice. A sad day for America.” Yet unlike Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and most of the commonwealth’s Republican congressmen, Paul said he has not yet decided whether to endorse Trump. “I think that it’s important that if he wants to get my vote and my support and wants me to be more active...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) listed a set of standards former President Donald Trump has to meet before he takes an active role and endorses the presumptive GOP nominee. “When we have agreed, I’ve been very supportive. When we have disagreed, I’ve also disagreed with him,” Paul said in an interview with Spectrum News. Before Paul can endorse Trump, the latter needs to be more outspoken on issues the Kentucky senator deems critical, he said. “I think that it’s important that if he wants to get my vote and my support, wants me to be more active in this, that he’s...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) questioned former President Trump's commitment to slashing government spending in a heated exchange with top Trump ally Russell Vought during a recent closed-door meeting, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Paul is among a dwindling number of Republicans who've refused to publicly back the former president as the party's 2024 nominee. And those in Trump's orbit are getting antsy. "There's a growing sentiment in Trumpworld that Rand can't be trusted, and it's a great disappointment," Trump ally and consultant Alex Bruesewitz told Axios. Driving the news: Paul grilled Vought on May 22 over the Trump administration's...

I’ve long criticized our current US justice system – on all levels – as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns. The New York District Attorney, Soros-backed Alvin Bragg, has been notorious for downgrading felony charges against others to misdemeanor charges. According to a recent article in the Daily Mail, Bragg had downgraded 60 percent of felony cases to lesser charges, resulting in violent criminals being released on the streets and a crime wave across New York City. But...

If you have spent any amount of time online as a Trump supporter, you have certainly seen the rhetoric. Both liberals and the DeSantis crew like to call MAGA a cult and seem excited at the thought of Donald Trump’s demise. They long for the days of a pre-Trump Republican party. The reality is that while Trump is the current figurehead of the movement, it was birthed under Ron Paul. Ron Paul took fringe conversations such as no foreign wars and sound economics onto the main stage. Donald Trump then took many of these same conversations from the main stage...

I’m not very good at imagining what goes on in the minds of crooks. But I can process what I see. If I was the Deep State and could compromise anybody I wanted I would wait until somebody had the trust of the people and then I would threaten them into betraying their supporters. And then I would threaten one of them to go out and rabble-rouse saying that the others had deliberately betrayed everybody so R’s are just as bad as D’s. There’s no difference. That would leave the R’s in tatters, torn and fighting each other rather than...

@RandPaul Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!” while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.

Sen. Rand Paul has directed a stern warning at former President Trump, cautioning that his continued backing of Speaker Johnson could alienate a significant portion of his base. “If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words,” Sen. Rand Paul warned.

It looks like Senator Rand Paul might have just dug up the emails that everyone’s been waiting for. He’s got his hands on a pile of them as part of his deep dive into how COVID started, and he spilled the beans on X. These aren’t just any old emails—they involve Peter Daszak and David Morens, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s right-hand man at the NIH. What’s the big deal? Well, they’re chatting about how samples from the Wuhan lab could unlock the genomes of over 700 coronaviruses. Here’s the kicker: Despite all the times Dr. Fauci has been grilled in Congress...