Posted on 10/04/2025 2:53:05 AM PDT by RandFan
@SenRandPaul
This continuing resolution keeps spending at Biden’s reckless levels: no real cuts, no debt reduction. It’s the same old Washington game of borrowing more and ignoring fiscal responsibility.
We need to stop the spending spree and get government under control.
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“The house has been working on the 2026 budget and making good progress to be done on time for the first time in many years. They need a few weeks to get that work done in time for the Nov deadline.”
Federal fiscal years start October 1.
Yes, there is a time to draw a line in the sand. OTOH, some people need to learn that 'the enemy of good is perfect.'
In Rolling Stones terms, 'You can't always get what you want'. This is especially true when you belong to a political party made up of many people who don't always agree 100% on everything.
Rand Paul has Libertarian Disease. Yes, he’s right about this. But that’s not the problem.
The problem is rounding up 51 votes in the Senate, 218 votes in the House, 60 votes to break a democrat filibuster, and then talking Trump, who is a populist, not a conservative, into signing a major reform of entitlements.
Rand Paul has never been interested in actually passing legislation. He’s interested in demonstrating his ritual purity.
To help fund likely Medicaid expansion to states like Texas and Florida, the state Medicaid shares (traditional & expansion) would increase annually starting in 2028 by a percentage equal to the deficit in the fiscal year ending prior to the calendar year divided by $1 trillion. That would be a 1.5% increase for a $1.5 trillion deficit, or a .6% increase for a $600 billion deficit.
To that add:
To soften this increase for the states, I would have the federal government increase its share of Medicaid drug expenditures. This would have states assume more responsibility for medical service costs which they regulate, and the federal government assume more responsibility for drug costs which it has the power to regulate.
goof fix:
The maximum federal subsidy amount would go from 100% of the second cheapest silver plan at 80% of FPL to 0% at 400% of FPL.
Silver plans would be limited to a maximum deductible of three times the Medicare Part A amount (2025: $1676).
Yes I know. But ...
Speaker Johnson gave an update on the budget appropriations process in that last 2-3 day. 3 of the 12 resolutions apparently passed the house floor and the rest are coming out of committeee. It was Johnson who talked about a November deadline on a fox business video. This is Johnson’s statement, unfortunately he is on so many videos the one containing the statement with reference to Nov. is proving difficult to find. Perhaps it is a self imposed deadline like July 4th for the BBB.
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2681
Linked (link timed to that porion of the video) are Johnson’s comments on Rand’s position. The remainder of the video addresses the opportunity to cut government positions afforded by the shutdowns.
https://youtu.be/ZnGXw1b7d_Q?t=460
Senator Kennedy mentions some of the things the Democrats are demanding we fund:
- $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia
- $833k for transgender people in Nepal
- $4.2 million for lgbtq people in the Western Balkans and Uganda
- $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti
- $500k for electric buses in Rwanda
- $6 million for media organizations for the Palestinians
- $300k for a pride parade in Lesotho
- $882k for social media and mentorship in Serbia
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The federal fiscal problem is mainly medical cost based.
I believe most hospitals should be split into two competing entities. Those hospitals would no longer be local monopolies. No union should be able to contract with both. Their union contracts should have to expire at least three months apart.
Drug coverage should be separated out from medical service coverage and sold on a national basis. You would pick a hospital cost coverage plan and then a hospital cost coverage plan approved drug plan.
Once drug coverage is split off, hospitals could run hospital cost coverage plans without insurance company middlemen.
Services that are (or could be) rendered on an outpatient basis by individuals might be moved outside of the health care cost insurance system.
He’s a drama queen
Be aware that each year the federal agencies state what they want funded (just like the kiddies state what they want for Christmas).
Congress only to give it, cut it or deny it (just like mommy and daddy).
Congress then adds stuff for their districts and state, and pork. The representatives and senators could be told to have their requests in by June 1.
There’s really no good reason why a budget can’t be produced in plenty of time.
Oversimplification to the level of disingenuousness.
Paul is right, but he is wrong.
The GOP in the house has budget allocation bills in the making, as part of the regular budget and spending allocation legislation. Some of those bills could be ready for House votes before December.
That, not the CR, is when the GOP can make some cuts.
The CR is just to get some more time, that’s all.
"I am Charlie!"
Charlie spoke truth to the lost.
Give your tagline to Rand.
I stand with Rand. And his Fan.
Haters lash at the conscience of a Free Republic.
Rand, I used to like you, but you have become a one note Samba. Just STFU already. NO ONE is listening to you.
You are shouting in the wilderness. (idiom for an individual expressing an unpopular or ignored opinion.)
You are pathetic. You accomplish NOTHING! You just rant and rave to ZERO effect. Why don’t you try to accomplish something that is actually attainable.
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