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  • Sen. Rand Paul calls for $500 billion "recission" package to make DOGE a reality in Congress

    02/20/2025 8:12:09 AM PST · by RandFan · 26 replies
    Reason Magazine ^ | | 2.19.2025 4:15 PM | Eric Boehm
    Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is no newcomer to pointing out silly ways that the federal government wastes taxpayer dollars—like the time the National Institutes of Health spent over $300,000 to study whether quails got more frisky after being fed cocaine, which has been a staple of his speeches for years. So he's pretty thrilled to see the executive branch focused on cutting wasteful spending. "We've been pointing this out for a decade, but now we finally have an administration that's interested in it—they are canceling contracts, locking doors, firing people. There really is this disrupting force, and that's good," Paul...