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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Interesting response by Rand. The question now is why hasn’t Trump sent the Rescission Bill?
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...
(Could it be DOGE was fake all along?)
You mean like bait to expose all the corrupt judges and politicians who were against it?
Hey Rand, how did the interstate get to one trillion while YIOU WERE SENATOR UNDER BIDEN?
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?
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.
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..
So his re-election is dependent on not actually being for spending reduction, which is what he keeps promising?
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.
I have full faith in the Senate to do nothing and at some point we’ll go into default.
Possible but more likely to fulfill some campaign promises, remember Trump is a Populist..not a Conservatives.
And this is why Musk has announced he’s cutting back in campaign spending
Yes Musk did say that as I think Musk figured out Trump might have been BSing him...
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.
> 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!
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
Rand Paul has never opposed the use of baseline budgeting.
Nuff said.
Dear Rand
Does it matter to you that my taxes will skyrocket?
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