RAND PAUL on Fox News Sunday

The deficit will be $2.2 trillion. We used to say that's Biden spending, Biden-omics.

There has to be someone left in Washington that says debts and deficits are Wrong.

Regarding the 'free' stuff (Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP), we're borrowing the money, which means more inflation.

There is no free stuff because it means inflation. It's a bait and switch, it's no good... The deficit is the biggest threat to our country.

I get criticized but I'm the one ringing the alarm bell here: THEY'RE NOT DOING ANYHING! We have the majority but there's No recission package (of DOGE cuts), no cuts, nothing for conservatives!

RE: Tulsi Gabbard put on terror watch list: This is offensive to every civil liberty in this country. I will get to the bottom of this. This is a real problem and I think they might be monitoring more members of congress or ex-members of congress.

I want to find out who came up with this idea to put Tulsi Gabbard on a terror list and they need to be [fired]

Except it ia true. I quoted Stephen Miller.

This post by Stephen Miller clarifies a lot of common misconceptions. I hope you find it interesting.

“I’ve seen a few claims making the rounds on the Big Beautiful Bill that require correction.”

“The first is that it doesn’t “codify the DOGE cuts.” A reconciliation bill, which is a budget bill that passes with 50 votes, is limited by senate rules to “mandatory” spending only — eg Medicaid and Food Stamps. The senate rules prevent it from cutting “discretionary” spending — eg the Department of Education or federal grants. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory. The bill saves more than 1.6 TRILLION in mandatory spending, including the largest-ever welfare reform. A remarkable achievement.”

“I’ve also seen claims the bill increases the deficit. This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick. Income tax rates from the 2017 tax cut are set to expire in September. They were always planned to be permanent. CBO says maintaining *current* rates adds to the deficit, but by definition leaving these income tax rates unchanged cannot add one penny to the deficit. The bill’s spending cuts REDUCE the deficit against the current law baseline, which is the only correct baseline to use.”

“Another fantastically false claim is that the bill spends trillions of dollars. This is just completely invented out of whole cloth. This is not a ten year budget bill—it doesn’t “fund” almost any operations of government, which are funded in the annual budget bills (which this is not). In other words, if this bill passed, but the annual budget bill did not, there would be no government funding. Under the math that critics are using, if we passed a one paragraph reconciliation bill that cut simply 50 billion in food stamp spending, they would say the bill “added” trillions in spending and debt because they are counting ALL the projected federal spending that exists entirely outside the scope of this legislation, which is of course preposterous. The only funding in the bill is for the President’s border and defense priorities, while enacting a net spending cut of over 1.6 TRILLION dollars.”

“The bill has two fiscal components: a massive tax cut and a massive spending cut.”
https://x.com/StephenM/status/1926715409807397204

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