Rand just tried to codify Foreign Aid CUTS into law but FAILED (GOP voted it down ...)

Here are the 26 Republicans that just voted against codifying DOGE foreign aid spending cuts into law:

Thank you for referencing that article RandFan.

"Rand just tried to codify Foreign Aid CUTS into law but FAILED (GOP voted it down ...)"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

While post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Rand's heart is in the right place, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of foreign aid.

Justice Joseph Story had put it his way about foreign aid.

“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).

So Rand's effort to codify foreign aid cuts is off-target imo since foreign aid is not one of Congress's constitutionally enumerated powers.

On the other hand, PDJT47 using tariffs to help shape foreign policy seems to be what the Constitution's drafters had intended for foreign policy.

“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.

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