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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why does Mr. Paul just go to the WH and discuss this with the president, instead of whining on X???
I think it’s more complicated no doubt he has tried
tht is why i asked, even a phone call would help
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