That’s what the appropriations bills are for. This is symbolic nonsense. Grandstanding.
Come on Kentucky, get rid if this loser.
His no is virtual signaling to pinheads who don’t know any better. The rest of us, in the real world, have to suffer his and their delusions.
Gee Rand, with all your years in the Senate why is it that you haven’t been able to convince your colleagues to get serious about balancing the budget? Are you ineffectual?
I'll keep voting no until Washington gets serious about balancing the budget.
That is not how destructive addiction works. The problem is that the US government in general and Congress in particular are drug addicts -- in this case, the drug is other people's money, taken at the point of a gun. Enabling the addiction is the US voter wanting "their slice of the pie" at the expense of others.
Remember John F. Kennedy? "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country" Interesting words from a 60s Democrat, given the words from the 2025 Democrats today. It is like there are two distinct political parties.
Intervention can only come from the ballot box, at this point. And such intervention won't happen until the taxpayer actually footing the bill is the one who is heard. Or until the whole house of cards collapses.
Pray for a miracle; prepare for the worst.
It’s easy to stand back and throw out comments, but maybe your idol Rand should do what politicians are supposed to do, get in there and work to get what he says he wants. I don’t see any indication that he does. Same goes for mouth Massy.
perhaps this approach might lead the campaign to eliminate the federal income tax?
“I’ll keep voting no until Washington gets serious about balancing the budget.”
Wanting to balance the budget and spending money they have for programs that are not in the best interest of the people are two different things.
He misses the intent of why the liberals are doing this. They don’t care about balancing anything unless it puts back programs that Trump has taken away that harm the people. So the appearance is he doesn’t care what is being spent, just that it has to balance. Idiocy.
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Knock it off with the keyword spamming!
The useless (except for impeding Trump’s agenda for the left), anti-Trump “rino” democrat rand paul has been b*tt hurt since Trump mopped the floor with rand’s hair in the 2016 election.
inpotent rand paul sides with the dems, and says NO! NO! NO! to things where he thinks he can strong arm Trump and the rest of the republican party into doing things his way...
and the rand paul’s supporters here want to gaslight FR into believing it’s a good thing to oppose Trump’s agenda and advance the leftist and the dem’s instead.
Politics is about achieving what’s possible, not demanding the impossible and then pouting.
Rand is NOT serious. His plans has a $1 trillion debt this year and cut that in half over the next 4 years. His plan still results in $2 trillion more debt. Balanced budget my ass.
One word to describe this guy: Irritating.
Nothing gets done while the government is shut down...and some Kentuckians are royalley p***** by now. You vote for THEM...and they want it opened.
It’s really this simple folks....
REVENUES in 2025 = $5.2T
EXPENDITURES in 2019 = $4.4T
If we simply spent what we spent in 2019 (which was still WAYYYY TOO MUCH) we would have an $800B surplus.
We have the House of Representatives
We have the Senate
We have the White House
We have the USSC
....and all Rand is asking for is a BALANCED BUDGET??????
In any “conservative” view, what Rand is asking for isn’t even enough.
But some “severe conservatives” here on FR will say that Rand is asking too much.
We are done. We lost.
I’m sure Rand knows that Congress is going to do nothing about spending so he should just advise people to start loading up on gold & silver for the inevitable collapse of our currency.
But net effect, is no government budget. His vote is a symbolic NO. We don’t need a balanced budget. We need a NEGATIVE budget to pay off our debt.
Rand needs to have a comprehensive budget which pays down the deficit. Till then, he is effectually the taking sides with the Demonrats.
Don’t just complain. Do something appropriate.
Little Dutch Boy must not want our military to get paid. Fighting for his loser ass for free .
I could get behind him, if he weren’t such a squish on aliens here illegally.
https://ontheissues.org/2016/Rand_Paul_Immigration.htm
Illegals are economic liabilities. They cost us more than they contribute.
Remember this debate, where one of the candidates called aliens sneaking across our (welcomed from 2021-24) an “act of love”. lol JEB!
Let’s see his plan. We are 38 trillion in debt and he can solve it? I want to see on paper how he plans to backup his rhetoric with real numbers. @Randfan - you know so much about him, how about providing the link to his plan?