President Trump slammed conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday for pledging to vote in opposition to his “big, beautiful bill”, accusing the Kentucky lawmaker of voting “NO on everything” and “never” having “practical or constructive ideas.”
Paul stated he may vote for the 1,116-page funds reconciliation invoice that handed out of the Home final month if it didn’t embody language to boost the federal debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
Paul’s feedback sparked Trump to fireside again on social media, accusing Paul of getting “crazy” concepts.
“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!” Trump posted on Reality Social, his social media platform.
In a separate submit, Trump declared Paul has “very little understanding” of the invoice and doesn’t grasp “the tremendous GROWTH” it could unleash from the financial system.
“Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting ‘NO’ on everything, the thinks it’s good politics but it’s not,” Trump wrote.
“The BBB is a big WINNER!!” he wrote.
Paul says he can’t vote for Trump’s invoice as a result of he’s basically against heaping a number of extra trillion {dollars} onto the nationwide debt over the subsequent two years.
He instructed CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that “the math doesn’t really add up” on the price of Trump’s invoice.
“I think they’re asking for too much money,” he stated.
Paul warned earlier than the Memorial Day recess that “the anticipated deficits per year now will be $2 trillion a year for the next two years.”
He stated that Republicans are going to shoulder the blame for large future federal deficits in the event that they vote to boost the debt ceiling by one other $4 trillion or $5 trillion to present the federal authorities sufficient room to finance its spending and debt obligations previous the 2026 midterm election.
“I think the problem for conservatives is they lose their high moral ground. These will be their deficits,” he stated. “These will be GOP spending bills, GOP deficits and there is no change in the direction of the country.”
Paul stated the spending cuts in what Trump calls his huge, lovely invoice “wimpy.”
“They got a $300 billion increase in spending for the military and the border,” he stated. “We don’t need another $46 billion for a [border] wall,” Paul stated. “There’s nothing conservative about this.”
