Posted on 05/23/2025 11:32:03 AM PDT by backpacker_c
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) immediately announced his opposition to the House-passed bill Thursday, vowing to vote against it unless Senate Republican leaders remove a provision to raise the federal debt limit by $4 trillion over the next two years.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), an outspoken fiscal hawk, said Thursday that there are four Senate Republican conservatives who will vote against the House bill as currently drafted, which would be enough to sink the bill if there is full attendance.
Johnson said: “I think I’ve got at least four right now that this is not going anywhere.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
rand paul has gone full on little big man syndrome, and thinks he can get Trump to come to him on his knees for his vote, otherwise he'll join the leftist to block Trump's tax cuts...
And I'm not sure what ron johnson's problem is....
I guess the other 2 are going to be from mcconnell, murkowsky, or collins....
“The Hill” is going to do any thing it can to derail President Trump’s agenda.
“The President proposes, Congress disposes”
But they had no problem sending $350,000,000,000 to the Ukraine laundromat.
How does refusing $4T on the debt ceiling make Paul a RINO?
Senator Johnson this morning says no, too.
So . . . Paul, Murkowsky, McConnell, Collins, Johnson and almost certainly more.
This was always going to be so. The House is spending too much money. $4T is just not even remotely rational over a 2 yr period. It would increase interest almost $200B.
The “news” keeps talking about potential cuts to medicare. Scares the hell out of everyone
Posturing. (period)
This is the phase where the DC denizens come into the leaders’ offices and ask for the downtown Hayseed Corners urban renewal for $41 million to be added as a pork item, special scholarships for high school graduates in Armpit County to be agreed to and the taxes for anyone named Murkowski to be zeroed out.
perhaps:
The debt ceiling shall be increased by $300 billion.
[That’s to make sure money is on hand.]
The debt ceiling shall also be increased each month by 1/12 of $1 trillion.
[That’s about the maximum sustainable amount.]
ALWAYS
FOLLOW
THE
MONEY
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
EVERY “Republican” standing in the way of this can be easily proven to be every bit as corrupt as Joe Biden and his family - they simply get their grift from the other side of the same coin.
Because Paul has a significant record of gathering as much bacon (pork) as every other of the corrupt RINOs up there - all while making a SHOW of being against earmarks and pet projects. Paul is a hypocrite. And while he often says things that are not politically correct and need saying, he has a bad habit of flushing his credibility down the commode.
How is THAT even sustainable?
“Under S-PAYGO, reductions in Medicare spending are limited to 4 percent—or an estimated $45 billion for fiscal year 2026.”
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61423-PAYGO.pdf
I think I know how to deal with Medicare Advantage.
The amount paid to a Medicare Advantage plan by CMS shall be 99% of the total amount Medicare would directly pay for such services and products plus 25% of the amount that total amount is less than what Medicare would pay for direct insureds by zip code and age at the start of the benefit year.
Let us say that Medicare would have paid $10 billion for such services. Let us say the zip code and age expectation is $11 billion.
The plan would get paid 99% of $10 billion plus 25% of the $1 billion plan savings, or $9.9 billion plus $250 million, or $10.15 billion.
Don’t worry about what the voters want assclowns. Self serving s-heads.
OHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSS!!!! What will we do now?
Panicans!
“How is THAT even sustainable?”
Figure 3% inflation on $36 trillion, or $1.08 trillion/year.
Yes, that’s maxing out the national credit card.
Decreasing resources for Americans while increasing resources for foreigners damages Republican prospects for 2026 and for 2028.
The voters want pork.
Every dollar of deficit spending the Senate shaves off is one less dollar our children will owe.
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