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Rand Paul met with the Vice President
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Posted on 07/01/2025 10:30:32 AM PDT by RandFan

@RandPaul

Throughout the Vote-a-rama, I was working all night to stop Congress from adding to our debt.

I met with @VP and I reiterated my offer to vote for the bill—if it included a 90% reduction in the debt ceiling.

No earmarks. No handouts. Just real fiscal reform.

I wasn’t looking for favors. I wasn’t horse-trading. I was fighting for the American people and against our out-of-control debt.

Bottom line: I offered my vote for fiscal sanity. Congress chose to sell out taxpayers instead. Only once the bill is released, we will know what the true price was.

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To: HockeyPop

Yeah this whole thing has been confusing as hell..how it all works, provisions, parliamentarians, why she was allowed to do what she did, the whole thing gives me a headache LOL. I wanted the DOGE cuts to be in there, I assume they are not? Not sure why they could not have put in ALL the DOGE cuts til now in the bill, or can they do it in another bill(Yeah watching this congress/senate, it will take them forever to pass anything)


41 posted on 07/01/2025 11:28:34 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EnderWiggin1970

😂🤡


42 posted on 07/01/2025 11:32:46 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’l1 give you three guesses:

1) Nancy Pelosi

2) Chuck Schumer

3) Tip O’Neill

Uttered when Reagan, Bush, or the other Bush was President.


43 posted on 07/01/2025 11:33:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Don’t feel bad. Technocrats drew it up and doubtful most of Congress read it. Remember, “You’ll know what’s in it after it is passed”.


44 posted on 07/01/2025 11:33:47 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: Sarah Barracuda

” I wanted the DOGE cuts to be in there, I assume they are not? Not sure why they could not have put in ALL the DOGE cuts til now in the bill, “

It has been posted dozens of times. It is a reconciliation bill. DOGE cuts are off limits in a reconciliation bill.


45 posted on 07/01/2025 11:37:16 AM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: bourgain

Bingo. Pauly just increased spending. Real bright. You’d think an ophthalmologist could see that. It might be interesting to tally his past contributions to the debt.


46 posted on 07/01/2025 11:39:36 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: HockeyPop

“Don’t feel bad.”

See #45.

” Technocrats drew it up and doubtful most of Congress read it. Remember, “You’ll know what’s in it after it is passed”.”

Stupid post.

The entire bill was read aloud in the senate.


47 posted on 07/01/2025 11:39:37 AM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: TexasGator

Easy there Batman. Not everyone is glued to the comings and goings, let alone possess your superior logic and analytical skills.


48 posted on 07/01/2025 11:46:19 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: HockeyPop

“Not everyone is glued to the comings and goings, let alone possess your superior logic and analytical skills.”

If you don’t know what is going on, quit acting like you do.


49 posted on 07/01/2025 11:50:03 AM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: TexasGator

You sound like an ex wife. Take a walk.


50 posted on 07/01/2025 11:52:55 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: RandFan

Hey Mr Libertarian;

Get busy on the pile of upcoming rescission bills and otherwise shut up.


51 posted on 07/01/2025 11:52:56 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: TexasGator

Since you seem to know a lot about how this all works I just saw this posted is this true?

Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt
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25m
Replying to
@SenEricSchmitt
So to reiterate: The “ban Medicaid for illegal immigrants” amendment failed because it didn’t reach the 60-vote threshold—but the original ban was already in the bill.

The bill that the Senate just passed.

A massive victory for America First.

Wait so I was complaining about nothing LOL


52 posted on 07/01/2025 12:00:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: HockeyPop

“You sound like an ex wife. Take a walk.”

No wonder she left. Take a hint.


53 posted on 07/01/2025 12:01:05 PM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: NorthMountain

Good guesses. Hint. You are off by decades.


54 posted on 07/01/2025 12:03:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: TexasGator

At least you have a sense of humor.


55 posted on 07/01/2025 12:04:11 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: TexasGator

I just went through Senator Eric Schmitt twitter feed, he explained how everything about illegals not getting Medicaid is STILL in the bill..so now I feel much better about it. I was confused about it, assuming it had been removed, heck a lot of people thought that, now that its in and was never taken out I approve..yes the bill is NOT perfect, it never will be..I think the 2017 Trump tax bill also was filled with pork, but I will take the good with the bad :-)


56 posted on 07/01/2025 12:09:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: um1990
Once people get their hands on “free money”, they kick, scream and yell about losing it.

Several posters were like that in 2020 - they wanted their "free" money - several DEMANDED it.

57 posted on 07/01/2025 12:09:35 PM PDT by Fury
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Thanks to 112 years of popular senatorial elections, Congress is institutionally incapable of fiscal restraint.


58 posted on 07/01/2025 12:09:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Mean Daddy

Unfortunately, Rand Paul isn’t up until 2028 when trumps not even on the ticket.


59 posted on 07/01/2025 12:11:07 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Since the amendment process has been mostly about democrat stalling I have pretty much ignored it.

Can you provide a reference to that amendment?


60 posted on 07/01/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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