Posted on 06/18/2025 6:15:11 PM PDT by backpacker_c
During a Tuesday Fox News appearance, Paul, a Republican with strong libertarian convictions, told Mornings with Maria host Maria Bartiromo that he was not voting for the bill.
'I'm enthusiastically for the tax cuts, I voted for them in 2017 I helped to formulate those tax cuts in 2017,' Paul stated.
'I will not be the deciding vote against this, I promise you that. If I'm the deciding vote against this, they will negotiate with me.'
'Right now they are not negotiating with me, because they don't think they need me, so I will not be the deciding vote. The bill will not fail because of me,' the Senator continued.
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In his muddled comments, it sounds like either there's enough votes to pass the budget bill...
and/or rand paul isn't considered an impedment to block the passage of the bill, or they are negotiating with someone else..
It doesn't sound like rand has anything to offer, but then again, all he's been doing, has been acting like the petulant little child with arms folded, going "No! Give me what I want"...
Maybe rand should go back to iowa and restart and reframe his image and presidential campaign again...
“””Paul, a Republican with strong libertarian convictions,”
Paul, a RETARD with strong libertarian delusions,
The Senate has so screwed this bill up - they could have passed the bill but no, they had to make so many changes. If I did not dislike the democrats so much and feel they are a one way ticket to hell if they controlled our country, I would never vote GOP again
I have always seen the libertarians as nothing but a pain in the proverbial butt.
I think he’s been on Fox News as often, if not more than Pam Bondi. Rand should have stuck to dentistry. He wants to reduce funding for immigration security in half, and believes we should allow illegals to stay as long as they haven’t committed any other crimes after they arrived here. And then of course he opposes President Trump’s tariffs. The guy is an idiot.
Yep, despite what Trump wanted, the rino GOPe and good ole boys all still put their special interest pork into the bill...
even if it would eventually tank Trump’s agenda
Legalize everything!
No controlling authority !
Bleh.
Well said!!
Lmao 🤣 thank you and i needed to laugh
He’s not a dentist. That would be Dr. Paul Gosar.
“Rand should have stuck to dentistry.”
Rand Paul was a practicing ophthalmologist before election to the Senate.. He was not a dentist. He received his medical degree from Duke University.
lol....
As little as I listen to clay and travis, hannity, levin (a couple of minutes while making coffee), it seems like I’ve heard rand paul being interviewed by one of them almost every day over the past week or two...
His ‘as a conservative’ act is old and tiresome
😂
Pompass ass
Very.
>> Paul, a Republican with strong libertarian convictions
remind me what this “man of conviction” has accomplished
reminds me of the effete Gowdy
The most dangerous space on earth is that between Randsom Paul or Linseed Graham and an open microphone.
God bless you for sacrificing your precious time to listen to idiots. I stopped watching Fox News back in 2008 when Barry Soetoro got selected. I don’t watch any news programming on any platform. This place has been my home for 26 years and running. I’ve grown old with FR.
Oh that's right. I forgot. He was probably worthless at that too.
He’s lost all my respect.
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