It’s not a debt increase. Stop. It’s an increase on the debt ceiling. Without it we default on our debt and our economy crashes. Rand Paul has been in the Senate for how long? How many bills has he put forth to stop spending? The guy is an economic moron.
Our only way out of this is to grow our way out and ankle biters like him do nothing to help that.
He is saying he will vote to increase the debt ceiling for 3 months to the tune of 500 billion in order to buy time and something less objectionable
He wants reform and the penny plan or version of it
If this negotiating tactic by Rand results in the Republicans putting real spending cuts in the Big Beautiful, he’ll have my thanks. Think about how many of us FReepers were hoping the Big Beautiful had all of the DOGE cuts, only to be disappointed when the details came out. Rand is the someone loudly reminding Congress why MAGA put them there.