‘A Weak, Weak Man’: Rand Paul Obliterates Speaker Johnson — Says His Budget Bill Will Help Cause the U.S. Dollar to Fail

LEFT: Rand Paul (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa US via AP Images) RIGHT: Mike Johnson (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) minced no words in his condemnation of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday, castigating him as a “weak, weak man.”

Johnson has come out with a continuing resolution to continue funding the federal government ahead of Friday’s deadline. A number of House Republicans got out ahead of the release of the official text of the bill on Tuesday and called it a “dumpster fire,” blank check,” and “pet project filled disaster.”

“Swamp’s gonna swamp, right? 1,400 pages, still haven’t seen the text,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). “We’re just fundamentally unserious about spending. And as long as you got a blank check, you can’t shrink government. If you can’t shrink government, you can’t live free.”

We’re evidently going to take an 1,800-page document that we really haven’t read and going to pass it, add more debt. Very frustrating,” mused Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC).

Even Elon Musk, the incoming leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, got in on the action, declaring that “This bill should not pass.”

But no one went as far in their criticism as Paul, who wrote the following on X:

I had hoped to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man.

The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit.

A sad day for America.

Paul had previously attacked Johnson earlier this year for voting to defeat an amendment to a FISA reauthorization bill

“Speaker Johnson was incredibly wrong,” said Paul at the time. “He broke the tie. He voted with the Democrats. Here we have the leader of the Republicans in the House votes with the Democrats against a warrant requirement. We also have Speaker Johnson voting for the spending package once again with a majority of the Democrats. As I see it now, I’m not so sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge.”