Rand Paul Slams GOP Funding Bill on Fox News — Warns It Will ‘Wipe Out’ DOGE Cuts

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) harshly criticized the continuing resolution to reopen the government favored by his own party on Fox News Wednesday afternoon.

After anchor Martha MacCallum introduced Paul as “the only Senate Republican to vote against” the bill on Tuesday night, Paul observed that “the Republican plan adds about $2 trillion to the debt” while “the Democrat plan would add about $3 trillion to debt.”

“I’m just not for piling on more. We have a $37 trillion debt. Somebody’s got to do something about it. Someone has to take a stand. And there needs to be a conservative wing of the Republican party, and sometimes I’m it. Right now I am it,” said Paul. “I’m opposed to deficit spending. I proposed an alternative, the penny plan, which would balance over five years. And I will vote for that. I will vote for something that has less deficit, but I’m not voting for a $2 trillion deficit. The one irony here, though, for Democrats is: these are the Biden spending levels from December of last year. Every Democrat in the Senate voted for this bill last year before they voted against it today.”

Later in the conversation, Paul noted that even the Republican bill would “wipe out” the spending cuts implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this year.

“Government does need to shrink because our deficit is still $2 trillion a year. DOGE did some good things, but that’s another problem with the current CR is it wipes out those things,” argued Paul. “Foreign aid will come back. So all the cuts we got to foreign aid through the rescission packages and through DOGE, which I supported and wholeheartedly still support, they’re coming back with the CR. The Republican CR reinstitutes foreign aid. So there are a lot of things that are in the details that people need to learn about this.”

Watch above via Fox News.