Rand Paul: “The GOP Will Own” Trump’s $5T Debt Hike

CBS News reports:

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said Sunday that “the math doesn’t really add up” on the cost of President Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” while outlining his opposition as the legislation moves to the Senate this week. Paul is among a handful of Senate Republicans who have expressed opposition to the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump’s second term agenda that addresses the president’s tax, defense and energy priorities and which the House narrowly approved last month.

The Kentucky Republican argued Sunday that with the legislation, “there’s going to be a lot of extra money” going toward “padding the military budget” and additional border security when “the President has essentially stopped the border flow without new money and without any legislation.” “If I vote for the $5 trillion debt, who’s left in Washington that cares about the debt?” Paul said. “The GOP will own the debt once they vote for this.”

Read the full article. Yesterday Trump vaguely threatened Paul.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says “the math doesn’t really add up” on President Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” as the bill’s increases in federal spending “exceeds the DOGE cuts.”

Paul calls the bill “a vehicle for increasing spending for the military and for the border,” and “a… pic.twitter.com/TSakmB7G6M

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