Posted on 06/09/2025 11:37:52 AM PDT by RandFan
@RandPaul
We can cut the proposed border funding in half, from $150 billion to $75 billion, and still secure our border and protect the American people.
Let me give you an example of how this is excessive. Let’s take the proposed border wall.
Proposed fence cost: $46.5 billion
Actual fence cost: $6.5 billion
How did I come up with that number? Math based on costs, according to Border Patrol.
$6.5 million per mile x 1,000 miles of border wall = $6.5 billion
Where is that extra $40 billion going?
I’m all for hiring new people to help secure our borders, but we don’t need it to the extent that’s in this bill, especially when our border is largely contained.
We have to remember that every person we hire comes with added costs: health care benefits, pension benefits, the list goes on.
Don’t fall for the Swamp’s version of reality, where they claim we either borrow against our future to secure our border now, or we have wide-open borders. We can have BOTH border security AND fiscal responsibility. $75 billion is more than enough to accomplish both
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You forgot the labor cost..
Time for the “Not this #*@& again” meme.
It’s always everyone else’s fault and rand is pure as can be. Sanctimonious phony.
Im surprised Rand didn’t fly to LA and stand with Newscum and Loud Mouth Bass.
More immigration judges hired to expedite removing twenty million illegals.
Electronic detection and tracking devices.
It all adds up.
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Someone who stayed awake during math class... Getting hard to find anymore...
Rand is ONE Senator out of 53*... With 50 votes needed for passage.
*We know ALL the democrats will be a NO vote. Perhaps a exceedingly small chance of getting the one crazy democrat to vote yes.
Thank God we did so good in the Senate races... and ‘just’ good enough in the House.
But we cannot afford to send the bill back to the House with ANY changes. The vote margin over there is 0.
Both him and you are discusting.
The Libertarian Party supports open borders is one of the reasons I gave up on them decades ago. Rand Paul is as bad as his father. In many ways, he is worse.
He has worked his way deep into the party where he can cause maximum damage, while helping the democrats...
I wish his neighbor had finished the job. Rand Paul is useless...
Vicious but why did I laugh.
“ You forgot the labor cost..”
I figure that was included in the RFQ. If not, you are correct. $6.5 billion quickly turns into many billions more. And it isn’t 1000 miles. It’s closer to 1500 miles.
Rand Paul is a sanctimonious fraud. Paul and Massie never have an alternative that is achivable. The two of them will be the first to sign up for the circular firing sqaud.
This Property Protected by Ma Duece.
There is more than one border.
Rand Paul opposes mass deportations, he said in January 2025 interview.
“I’ve always thought the trade-off was this: If you came here illegally, you get to work, you still don’t get to vote and you really don’t get on a track to vote. You came here illegally,” Paul told the Herald-Leader on Jan. 10. “Your punishment is you don’t have a citizenship track, but you get to stay and you get to work.
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1931802630461997219
Look at the date! Jan 30, 2025. After Biden dumped untold millions of illegals into our cities, Rand says give them all amnesty.
https://x.com/stephenm/status/1931803070297727126
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