Posted on 06/03/2025 10:08:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump took a swipe at one of the Republican detractors of his "big, beautiful bill" that is now before the Senate, saying Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has "little understanding" of the budget bill that will fund Trump's domestic policy agenda.
Paul's chief criticism of the megabill is the hike to the debt ceiling. He has said he would likely support the bill if not for that, even in light of the "wimpy and anemic" cuts that House Republicans sent to the Senate.
"In all likelihood, I can vote for what the agreement is on the rest of the bill, and it doesn't have to be perfect to my liking," Paul said Sunday. "But the debt ceiling increase is a nonstarter."
Trump called out Paul on Tuesday morning.
"Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting 'NO' on everything, he thinks it's good politics, but it's not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!," Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
Trump took another jab at Paul in a second post.
"Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can't stand him," he posted.
Paul isn't Trump's only potential roadblock in the Senate.
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A handful of other senators are concerned about cuts to Medicaid, and House GOP leadership is bracing for Senate counterparts to dismantle the state and local taxes provisions that were a key point of contention in the lower chamber.
Trump on Monday called on Republicans to get the bill to his desk before July 4.
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Do away with the idiotic debt ceiling. If you are going to pass programs, you have to pay for them. Don’t want the debt to go higher? Stop spending money you don’t have.
Spending too much money is not a good idea.
The same naysayers complain about not deporting illegals fast enough. This bill increases funding for that.
The fact that the border is all but closed it helps. But removing 10 million is quite a task.
Instead of attacking Rand Paul as a first result, IMHO he should have said something along the lines of "I will work with Sen. Paul to address his concerns about the debt so we can get this passed in the Senate".
Then if Rand Paul refuses, Trump can attack him.
As I see it right now, Sen. Paul is correct to complain about increasing the debt, many of us including myself gave Trump a second term with the expectation that he would do something about spending and the debt.
The debt ceiling should be lowered every year, not raised!
New nickname for the Senator: “Grandstand” Rand.
“In all likelihood, I can vote for what the agreement is on the rest of the bill, and it doesn’t have to be perfect to my liking,” Paul said Sunday. “But the debt ceiling increase is a nonstarter.”
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If, as Trump and the White House claims, there will be no debt increase, then why are they pushing for a debt ceiling increase?
If I understand correctly, the CBO scores a tax cut as an increase in debt. If the debt ceiling isn't raised, the budget can't accommodate a tax cut. The CBO apparently doesn't understand the Laffer curve.
STFU. Rand is on every network trashing the bill. Trump has every right to publicly call out this economic ignoramus.
Raising the debt ceiling is not raising the debt.
A good thing to say but I have seen countless endorsements of those RINO incumbents on Truth Social by the POTUS in recent weeks.
The whole situation very interesting indeed.
Raising the debt ceiling is not raising the debt.
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Then why raise it?
Add to that I believe the CBO is scoring growth at around 2%. I believe the real May number was around 4.6%.
rand paul has said he is a no vote, unless he gets his way with no increase in the debt ceiling
and rand paul has said it on the multiple talk shows he's been on, trying to raise his appearance and importance as the rino GOPe puppet that opposes Trump
so it seems rand paul has said, he's done talking....
Because without raising it we run the risk of defaulting on the existing debt. That would destroy our economy. We are here because of profligates like Rand. How many times has Rand voted to raise the debt ceiling under previous administrations, yet he gaslights like this.
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