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Rand Paul responding on twitter regarding Trump bill
X ^ | May 25 | Sen. Rand Paul

Posted on 05/25/2025 11:51:17 PM PDT by RandFan

@garysteveneaton

OK. If you’re really a fiscal hawk how about being the point man on codifying DOGE cuts?

@RandPaul

The DOGE cuts can only happen when POTUS sends Congress a “rescission” bill. By law this can only occur when POTUS sends Congress a bill and we can approve the cuts by simple majority. So far, POTUS has not sent Congress a “rescission” bill. In this particular case Congress is beholden to a directive from POTUS.

@RandPaul

For over a month rumors of a $9B rescission bill have circulated, comprised of $8B in foreign aid cuts and $1B in NPR cuts. But the bill never materialized supposedly because weak-kneed Republicans are threatening to vote no. ($9B is a rounding error, but a start) and yet GOP leadership seems under the spell of GOP big spenders.

@RandPaul

The Big Beautiful Bill raises the debt ceiling $5 trillion dollars (the Senate version). No Congress has ever approved a debt ceiling so large!

Interest on the debt now exceeds $1 trillion!

@RandPaul

The debate isn’t over faithfulness to President Trump, whom I admire and support. The debate is about the debt crisis that faces the country and will anyone be brave enough to stand athwart the tsunami of debt before it drowns us all.

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He doesn't often reply but there it is
1 posted on 05/25/2025 11:51:17 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Interesting response by Rand. The question now is why hasn’t Trump sent the Rescission Bill?


2 posted on 05/26/2025 12:04:38 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: RandFan

Could it be DOGE was fake all along? They had a Website where the Public could go look at the Savings...never had any data to display.... A theory I have is DOGE was a tool to distract the Public while Trump wreaked the long overdue method to remove these agencies...


3 posted on 05/26/2025 12:37:41 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

(Could it be DOGE was fake all along?)

You mean like bait to expose all the corrupt judges and politicians who were against it?


4 posted on 05/26/2025 12:42:50 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: RandFan

Hey Rand, how did the interstate get to one trillion while YIOU WERE SENATOR UNDER BIDEN?


5 posted on 05/26/2025 12:49:40 AM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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To: RandFan

So why didn’t Rand Paul call President Trump and talk to him about it? He’d rather take to Twitter, and run his mouth for the attention. Did he happen to mention this on the Sunday tv show he was just on?


6 posted on 05/26/2025 1:00:22 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan
We still have the option of growing our way out of a debt economy.

Unfortunately - every time the economy booms, we add another trillion dollars to spending, or some routine crisis emerges, and we spend another trillion cleaning up the mess.

7 posted on 05/26/2025 1:04:03 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: RandFan
all rand paul does is run his mouth, claiming he wants cuts to the proposed budget, while he does a cover his a** and protects his own pork

and people here support him for it and try to make him into some hero for joining with the leftist to obstruct Trump.

If rand paul was so serious about cutting spending...

Why doesn't he start with telling people what spending, that benefits him or his donors, he'd like to cut?

nah.... that might actually affect his chance of re-election and his pocketbook..

8 posted on 05/26/2025 1:39:45 AM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

So his re-election is dependent on not actually being for spending reduction, which is what he keeps promising?


9 posted on 05/26/2025 1:53:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: backpacker_c

None of these so-called Republicans ever do that, to my knowledge Rand Paul has never proposed anything meaningful in terms of cutting spending, all he does run his mouth and oppose everything.

He will run to every microphone available and happily say he’s opposed to the Trump Bill instead of meeting with Trump and his team on ways to make the bill more acceptable, instead we get a NO before the legislation is debated.


10 posted on 05/26/2025 2:11:13 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: RandFan

Mike Lee thinks they could do it.

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1926633711824429141


11 posted on 05/26/2025 2:28:05 AM PDT by roving
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To: RandFan

I have full faith in the Senate to do nothing and at some point we’ll go into default.


12 posted on 05/26/2025 2:59:51 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Possible but more likely to fulfill some campaign promises, remember Trump is a Populist..not a Conservatives.


13 posted on 05/26/2025 3:14:45 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Macho MAGA Man

And this is why Musk has announced he’s cutting back in campaign spending


14 posted on 05/26/2025 3:27:03 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Yes Musk did say that as I think Musk figured out Trump might have been BSing him...


15 posted on 05/26/2025 3:30:36 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: RandFan; All
Rand should dust off his “penny plan.”

The Rand Paul “penny plan” refers to a proposal by Senator Rand Paul aimed at reducing the U.S. federal budget deficit. The plan advocates for cutting one penny from every dollar of federal spending. In other words, it suggests reducing federal spending by 1% each year. The goal is to gradually decrease the size of the federal government and balance the budget over time without raising taxes.

The “penny” concept is symbolic, highlighting a small but consistent reduction in spending that could add up significantly over the years. The idea is to implement these cuts in a way that wouldn’t severely disrupt essential services, though critics argue that even small cuts could have negative impacts on certain programs.

16 posted on 05/26/2025 3:33:34 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: srmanuel

> has never proposed anything meaningful in terms of cutting spending

What are you talking about sir? He introduces a budget every year and it’s lucky to get 20 votes

HE TRIES and has done this every year for 15 years!


17 posted on 05/26/2025 3:33:55 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Cobra64

See my previous post. He introduces it every year. the Penny Plan or an updated version (more like six pennies now)

It’s lucky to get 20 votes


18 posted on 05/26/2025 3:34:48 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Chgogal

Rand Paul has never opposed the use of baseline budgeting.

Nuff said.


19 posted on 05/26/2025 3:36:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: RandFan

Dear Rand

Does it matter to you that my taxes will skyrocket?


20 posted on 05/26/2025 3:36:50 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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