Rand Paul

Mr. President, for decades, the globalists in Washington have led our country into one disastrous foreign war after another. Whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now potentially Venezuela, the formula i…

Rand Paul, a Republican, is criticizing an interventionist foreign policy approach being pursued by the current (Republican) administration…Show full reasoning

…ow, the proposal was made, and I just simply made a proposal that would pay everybody. So the Senator from Louisiana has objected to paying everyone, and I don't quite understand this. We could pay everyone. We could have paid everyone had he agreed to my motion. My motion…

Rand Paul (R) criticizes a specific colleague, the Senator from Louisiana (a fellow Republican, given both Louisiana senators are GOP), for…Show full reasoning

… ought to be paid. So I don't think it is clear that the President wouldn't support this. I think it is actually quite confusing that this is being objected to by the Democrats, and I think, actually, it would be nice to let the Democrats, you know, have a round at …

Paul criticizes Democrats as a bloc for objecting to paying federal workers/soldiers and for supporting ACA subsidies he characterizes as going to higher earners while lower-income people lose food stamps.Show full reasoning