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Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to SUBPOENA Dr. Fauci to testify about his role in COVID-19... Since Fauci accepted a “pardon” from Biden, he is NOT allowed to plead the fifth in this instance. And if he lies under oath, he can be ARRESTED for perjury. Fauci is SWEATING tonight.

The Senate has advanced President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill to a full debate despite two GOP defections after hours of drama. The final tally was 51-49. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina were the two Republican nays. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin initially voted no but switched to yes. Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol earlier to potentially cast a tie-breaking vote. WATCH Vice President Vance enters the Capitol as he prepares to break a potential tie on the first procedural hurdle on the GOP reconciliation bill pic.twitter.com/d2ATm6dP6m — Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) June 29, 2025...

The Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent President Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress, less than a week after he directed strikes aimed at the country’s nuclear capabilities. Senators voted 47-53 largely along party lines against the war powers resolution. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the lone GOP lawmaker to vote with Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), an ardent backer of Israel, voted with Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told Senate Republicans to expect to see the legislative text of the budget reconciliation package on Friday evening and then to vote at noon Saturday to begin debate on President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Several GOP senators, however, refused to say whether they would vote to proceed to the bill, including Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he’s a hard “no” on the legislation because it includes a provision to raise the debt limit by $5 trillion.

Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has unveiled a plan to override Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) proposal to fund border security and immigration enforcement activities at roughly half the amount favored by Senate and House Republican leaders. Paul created an uproar two weeks ago when he unveiled his portion of the Trump agenda megabill that would spend $6.5 billion on completing President Trump’s border wall and $22.5 billion on expanding detention facilities for migrants. Now Graham has answered with a move of his own, unveiling a proposal to restore funding for the border wall and Immigration...

Sen. Rand Paul's call to cut the Trump administration's request on border security spending for the president's "big, beautiful bill" has left him on the sidelines for negotiations on the megabill, Instead, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the chamber's Budget Committee, said this week he's the lead negotiator in the talks on the border part of the budget, "Senator Paul usually votes 'no' and blames everybody else for not being pure enough," said Graham in the interview. "As chairman, you … don't have that luxury sometimes. You have to do things as chairman [that] you wouldn't have to do...

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...

@RandPaul Congress spends $2 trillion more than its revenues, the Fed then buys this debt. Congress then pays the Fed interest. The Fed then pays interest to big banks to keep cash reserves. This is how govt makes the rich richer. But it gets worse. According economist Judy Shelton: “44% of the more the Fed currently [pays to the big banks] goes to foreign banks.” So, as Congress drags our country into bankruptcy, the FED enriches rich foreign banks.

... Iranian nuclear proliferation is not just an existential threat to Israel, but also an American problem. We've let it go on for too long.

@RandPaul Turns out my grandson is actually invited to the Congressional Picnic! He is ready! ------ “Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White House Party tonight,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “He’s the toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate, but why wouldn’t he be?”

President Donald Trump said Senator Rand Paul remains invited to the White House picnic, after the Kentucky Republican said he and his family had been disinvited over his opposition to the "Great Big Beautiful Bill." "Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White House Party tonight," Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday morning. "He's the toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate, but why wouldn't he be? "Besides, it gives me more time to get his Vote on the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, one of the greatest and...

Senator Rand Paul said he was disinvited from the White House picnic. Senator Paul, a critic of President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ called it “petty vindictiveness’ in remarks to reporters on Wednesday. Rand Paul said he was not given a reason and he isn’t sure if the call came down from President Trump. WATCH:

Cernovich @Cernovich Rand Paul’s shell game. He says he supports mass deportations, but don’t use the military! (Nov 2024.) Trump said OK. Let’s fully fund it using ICE. Now Rand says, it’s too much money! He will always come up with a fake reason to block deportations. Open borders Rand.

White House deputy speaker Stephen Miller lit into Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday, hammering the Kentucky libertarian for what he called a “dishonest and disgraceful” stance on border security and funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Miller blasted Paul after the senator appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, where he attempted to justify his opposition to a border funding bill. ..... Snip...... “The United States has spent trillions subsidizing open borders and mass migration,” Miller posted on X. “But when we talk about providing ICE even a modest sum to repel the invasion, the Rand libertarians are...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to oppose the One Big Beautiful Bill when it returns to the House if there are no changes made to the artificial intelligence provision. Greene says she was unaware of the AI provision when she first voted for the bill and now argues it would endanger state rights, risk job losses in her manufacturing-heavy district, and open the door to forced property seizures. Facing criticism for missing the provision, Greene defended her transparency, claiming no other lawmakers publicly flagged the AI clause and pledging to fight any future legislation that limits state authority over AI...

CBO projects $3T added to debt from bill that tackles tax policy, border security, healthcare reforms President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is projected to increase the debt by $3 trillion, with interest, or $5 trillion if made permanent, according to estimates. An estimate of the House-passed bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects it would add more than $2.4 trillion to primary deficits before interest over 10 years, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonprofit public policy organization. As of Wednesday, the national debt, which measures what the U.S. owes its creditors,...

If you have walked the deep political weeds with us, you will likely remember the warnings. Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, Rand Paul and other fellow republican travelers will join with Elon Musk and the alligator emoji network to oppose President Trump as soon as they can get back into the minority.There is an intention behind this alignment of interests, which includes the Tech Bros (and Sea Island), that ends with a Vance-DeSantis promoted effort in 2028. The only thing standing in their way is MAGA. As a result, MAGA must be fractured.The money center behind the strategy is working on...

Chuck Schumer and Elon Musk sure make strange bedfellows – but this is politics, after all. The Senate Majority Leader from New York, a fierce critic of DOGE who’s called Musk a liar and a hypocrite and accused the Tesla CEO of “sabotaging” critical benefits and a “hostile takeover” of federal government, pirouetted on Tuesday, declaring, without irony: “He’s right.”

From X https://x.com/catturd2/status/1930037840731046281 In 2015 in a debate in the Republican primary, Donald Trump completely owned and humiliated Rand Paul. I mean,Trump destroyed him. 10 years later, Rand hasn’t gotten over the humiliation. He’s been voting against Trump no matter what he does ever since. This is what it’s all really about. 100%, President Trump, ended his presidential dreams with one line, and he has never gotten over it https://x.com/i/status/1930040325965254891 Video clip of the debate exchange. https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1930040325965254891

Days after attacking a megabill that advances President Donald Trump's legislative agenda, Elon Musk slammed it again on Tuesday calling it a "disgusting abomination" in a post on X."I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination," Musk wrote of the House-passed bill. "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."Musk followed up with another post claiming the bill "will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt."