Posted on 04/23/2025 4:48:10 AM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON — Many Republican lawmakers lie low when they have differences with President Trump. Sen. Rand Paul has taken the opposite approach.
“Congress needs to grow a spine, and Congress needs to stand up for its prerogatives,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters, complaining that Trump relied on a national-emergency law to impose tariffs that Paul believes should be controlled by lawmakers. His comments came just days after he was one of only two GOP senators to vote against the party’s budget framework that is key to Trump’s tax cuts, saying it didn’t do enough to reduce the deficit.
The libertarian known for sometimes quixotic battles at the fringes of Capitol Hill is now at the center of the biggest fights in Washington. Paul’s moves have irritated the president, whom Paul never endorsed in the 2024 election, and now major parts of Trump’s agenda could hinge on whether the senator sticks to his guns or folds.
The conflict over tariffs could come to a head soon. A measure Paul is co-sponsoring to end Trump’s tariffs is set to come to the floor when the Senate returns next week. The effort is seen as having no chance of passing, but it will put fellow Republicans on the record as financial markets continue to reel and could pressure the administration to change course.
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Not a RINO, but he is starting to look a lot more like his dad.
I often admire Rand for his principled positions, and maybe he is saying the things he is saying just to lodge a symbolic arguement, but on this I agree with Trump. It’s not hard to once you see what is blatantly going on. Raising the tarrifs give us leverage to negotiate new (and more fair) trade deals. That process has already been manifest en mase
Yes I know what the position and many of you say you need a stomach for the fight and that things will sort itself out
Trump is using this exact argument at the moment
Anybody with that label loses all credibility.
From FR, a succinct and concise summary of libertarian insanity:
1) Freedom to murder the unborn. (Women’s “Liberation.” Liberation = Liberty = Libertarian.)
2) Freedom of access to all narcotics, including marijuana; vending machine drugs. (More faux “liberty.”)
3) Freedom of all sexual perversion. Legalized (liberated) prostitution, liberated homosexuality, lesbian, etc. By extension and ultimately, pedophilia and beastiality. That’s logic 101.
4)Freedom to pass across borders without paperwork (open borders). I.e., unfettered illegal immigration (which is what we have now).
The list of libertarian insanity goes on, but that's enough to show they have no business a) in American politics or b) on FR. And Rand Paul is nuts.
He IS a RINO.
He is a LIBERTARIAN, which is NOT a Republican, so, spare us your BS.
Oh gee thanks. He’s also very conservative if you look at his record
Dear Mr. Rand, aren’t you part of the government “that should be doing that job”?
Y’all haven’t, so the president will!
Rand likes the Tariffs on us.
No Rand is a Globalist open borders puppet .
Go Rand! He’s about the only senator I trust these days.
Hmm. I think he prefers none of the above.
Rand must be on the take form the CCP. He needs to be investigated.
That’s not true. If look at his twitter he is praising Trump on deportations!
He’s just a mixed bag for some of you.
Nailed it.
Libertarians may agree on some things that are conservative, but they also agree with lefties on other things (which is what separates them from us).
They have their own party, they should stick to it instead of further infecting ours.
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