Sometimes to see clearly one needs to step back and see the bigger picture. Rand Paul’s statement is asinine. It’s a fantasy. He is taking a position that reverberates with fiscal conservatives but in reality it makes no sense.
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. There are lots of cuts in the new budget.
Rather than voting to allow the Government to remain open for 7 weeks and get the new budget finalized Rand Paul votes to waste a tremendous amount of Federal dollars on a shutdown, impact the lives of service members and WIC. He says he’s doing it because the CR doesn’t cut spending.
What utter nonsense. Cutting spending in a CR is ridiculous. Not possible just a self-serving fig leaf for Paul’s irrelevance. If it takes months to get the 12 budget resolutions hammered out and passed how would the same care and diligence be achieved in a CR. Paul fools the same group over & over.
“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.