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...
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..
I have full faith in the Senate to do nothing and at some point we’ll go into default.
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.
Dear Rand
Does it matter to you that my taxes will skyrocket?
Except that only applies to this year, for funding previously approved.
At hand is next year’s funding, where all of the DOGE cuts should be incorporated but virtually none of them are.
The diminutive new “Maverick “ speaks.
Send the “rescission” bill, Mr. President. Put it in Congress’s court.
There is a lot of good in this bill, it sets onto law much of the best of the Trump agenda. It will set back the deep state and the dems for a decade. It will help reset the economic damage the dems have done to all of us. It will be a major step to the reset of our country.
If it doesn't pass, we will get a huge tax raise which will tank the economy, making the deficit even worse.
Rand probably knows he can pass this bill as a first step, and it will help by bringing us growth and prosperity. He likely knows he can come back and deal with this debt as a single issue later this year. Yet he persists on undoing it for a trojan horse issue.
We'll see what he does, but for now he will have to prove to most of us he cares about the real crisis we are in, that he cares to help America out of this pit rather than grandstand and fiddle while we burn. Until he proves otherwise, he deserves nothing. No attention, no kudos, no support.
He is John McCain II, siding with the dems to sabotage America, nothing more, nothing less.
The DOGE cuts can only happen when POTUS sends Congress a “rescission” bill.
We’ve seen how well that works out not so good
New rule to be a member of Congress one must have a MBA.
ANOTHER CASE OF: THE PERFECT BEING THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD?
So why is Trump willing to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion dollars?
“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!”
Yes, Rand.... but as you damned well know... this is the crap sandwich that we have been served by the radical leftist Democrats (and their helpers, the RINOs)... who have relentlessly attempted to destroy us from within for DECADES by overspending, throwing away and giving away taxpayer’s money and by importing invaders from every corner of the world. Funny, but I don’t recall you shouting out against Obama or OBiden this loudly, if at all.
Trump Team has only been in play for four months. If you expect and want miracles... where the hell were you during the Obama and OBiden years? (rhetorical question, considering)
“”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.””
Earth to Rand: But... it would be a really asininely stupid move.... to send Congress a bill that you know won’t pass, since... timing is everything... and the left (and you?) and their TDS, Trump-bashing media are slavering for anything they can use to make Trump look like a failure. But you know that, Rand. You’re just on a roll blaming Trump cause orange man bad, right Rand?
why does Mr. Paul just go to the WH and discuss this with the president, instead of whining on X???