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Posted on 05/01/2025 1:30:19 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who won a special election to replace national security adviser Mike Waltz in Florida's 6th Congressional District, ripped Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Wednesday for working with Democrats on a Senate resolution designed to rein in President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs.
The Senate was poised Wednesday to vote on the resolution, which would end the national emergency Trump declared in an executive order to implement the tariffs on foreign imports. Paul and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who sponsored the resolution, used a special legislative procedure to force a vote.
The resolution prompted House Republicans to add a hurdle for lawmakers seeking to quickly take up resolutions related to Trump's tariff authority, and the White House said Tuesday that Trump would veto the resolution if it reached his desk.
"If Rand Paul wants to get together with Bernie Sanders to fight Donald Trump, well, that's on him," Fine told "CNN News Central," according to Newsweek. "I know that I'm here to fight Democrats, not to work with Democrats to undermine what President Trump is trying to do.
"The fact of the matter is, trade policy throughout the world has been unfair for decades. And I appreciate President Trump for standing up and fighting back. We've been waiting for this for decades. We finally have a president who will go and get the job done."
The Senate on April 2 approved a similar but more limited resolution by a 51-48 vote that would only block tariffs on Canada. Four Republicans joined Democrats in voting for it: Sens. Paul and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; Susan Collins of Maine; and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Collins and Murkowski have said they plan to support the latest resolution,
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Fine scoffed when asked whether the House should debate or vote on Paul's resolution should it pass given that Republicans hold the majority in the lower chamber.
"No. Absolutely not," he said. "Look, tariffs are apparently a great idea when other countries do them. But when President Trump wants to level the playing field by fighting back, everyone loses their courage. He's trying to create a fundamental reordering in how we think about trade policy in the world. I'm behind him 100%, and this won't go anywhere in the House."
F U Rand Paul. Losertarian to the core.
He needs to go back to fighting Fauci. The myopic doctor is an economic idiot.
Kentucky
Rand Paul is acting like a real prick.
apparently Paul’s neighbor knocked the sense OUT of him.
this is the part that is particularly infuriating:
“Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who sponsored the resolution, used a special legislative procedure to force a vote”
why is it that the Democrats always have a “special procedure” to force votes —
— but the GOP never seems to be able to use a “special procedure” to force a vote on, say, defunding and reining in outlaw district and appellate courts that are inferior to the Supreme Court and therefore cannot be co-equal to the other 2 branches
inquiring strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution minds want to know...
I don’t watch NewsMax because they aren’t very good.
McConnell didn’t vote. Easy fact.
Rand Paul, the enema that keeps on giving...
He never had any. Been warning people for years here on FR. His daddy and him are both loons that will turn on you...
Agree with Fine. Why would a career politician like Rand Paul want to demonstrate his relevancy in the political arena now and pick a position against our President? We know when President Trump needed Republican assistance on Jan 6, 2021 that the Republicans like Paul turned their collective backs on our President.
Rob Schmitt and Carl Higbie on Newsmax are both more to the right than some here on FR. I have watched them since Fox fired Tucker.
Its time to primary Rand Paul.
He is a KOOK. NUTJOB. WEIRDO. A couple fries short of a Happy Meal.
>> Talk to the hand, Rand. Talk to the hand.
In my case, it’s “Talk to the FINGER, Rand, ya loopy liptard!”
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