Posted on 04/23/2025 4:48:10 AM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON — Many Republican lawmakers lie low when they have differences with President Trump. Sen. Rand Paul has taken the opposite approach.
“Congress needs to grow a spine, and Congress needs to stand up for its prerogatives,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters, complaining that Trump relied on a national-emergency law to impose tariffs that Paul believes should be controlled by lawmakers. His comments came just days after he was one of only two GOP senators to vote against the party’s budget framework that is key to Trump’s tax cuts, saying it didn’t do enough to reduce the deficit.
The libertarian known for sometimes quixotic battles at the fringes of Capitol Hill is now at the center of the biggest fights in Washington. Paul’s moves have irritated the president, whom Paul never endorsed in the 2024 election, and now major parts of Trump’s agenda could hinge on whether the senator sticks to his guns or folds.
The conflict over tariffs could come to a head soon. A measure Paul is co-sponsoring to end Trump’s tariffs is set to come to the floor when the Senate returns next week. The effort is seen as having no chance of passing, but it will put fellow Republicans on the record as financial markets continue to reel and could pressure the administration to change course.
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Another anti American nutcase chimes in. Move to China you loser.
Trump would not have won without the libertarian vote. Why do you think he freed Ross Ulbricht!
Vote for AOC. I DON’T GAF.
you’re on a roll
Open economic borders.
He’s against tariffs to restore our critical supply chains, but has no answer or urgency for us to end our vulnerability to China.
I wonder if we can get his neighbor to pay him a visit?
Congress SHOULD do something but they do nothing . As far as taxation goes Tariffs seem the most libertarian since the individual chooses to pay for it by purchasing foreign products
Or how about this, it is an invasion and using the military for logistics was the way to go on deportations:
https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-donald-trump-military-mass-deportation-1990826
Paul is globalist TDS maggot and a stooge.
I take that and the attack on him and his wife in the streets of DC to be why he became such a dishonest stooge on Covid.
He does not have TDS or he’d vote against everything and/or whine.
He does not do that. You can see examples of him praising Trump
Folks should really read what’s at the link in my reply #2.
I think the author is spot on.
I think politicians are constantly testing the water while trying to seem relevant and important. They have to stay on the stage and attract a certain amount of attention so they seem on the level of those whose jobs they may have ambitions to occupy. The many players create a frothy background noise. It’s up to us to decide what is important and who to listen to. At this point, it’s not Rand.
What will ultimately decide who wins is how the economy goes. If living gets cheaper and easier, it matters not what anyone says. If the nation runs into hard times, whoever is in charge, regardless of their culpability, will take the fall. All else is noise.
Writing a workable budget for another. I could go on...
Paul needs to stick to Medical Issues.
He did a great job on Fauci.
He is a loon all over the place like all Lie-ber-traitors.
Maybe Rand should just STFU! Fed up with him trying to be relevant.
“He is a LIBERTARIAN, which is NOT a Republican, so, spare us your BS.”
I don’t agree with him but I find it amusing that Freepers that are dumping on the Pauls licked two generations of globalist Bush balls.
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