How Bad Is The $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill? Rand Paul DESTROYS The Bill In Most Epic Tweetstorm Ever
Rand Paul has called out the hypocrisy and total disgrace of the Federal government’s spending bill. What Rand puts on blast is downright shocking…
So yesterday the Senate passed the $1,300,000,000,000 spending bill.
Senators were given “just hours” to read all 2,200 pages.
So without further dado, and we wish this could be some sort of Friday Humor post but it’s really not funny at all, here’s Senator Rand Paul’s epic lashing out at the Federal Government:
Shame, shame. A pox on both Houses – and parties. $1.3 trillion. Busts budget caps. 2200 pages, with just hours to try to read it.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Well here it is, all 2,232 budget-busting pages. The House already started votes on it. The Senate is expected to soon. No one has read it. Congress is broken… pic.twitter.com/izvJlUEgUM
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
It’s a good thing we have Republican control of Congress or the Democrats might bust the budget caps, fund planned parenthood and Obamacare, and sneak gun control without due process into an Omni…wait, what?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 21, 2018
I ran for office because I thought the Obama spending and trillion dollar annual deficits were a real problem for our country and now Republicans are doing the same thing. https://t.co/Fdi9riA3YK
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
FYI- The 2200+ page, budget-busting Omnibus has been printing for two hours in my office and still isn’t done.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
2. Remember the $350,000 NSF spent asking if japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 226 of terrible, no good, rotten deficit spending bill.
I found a kernel of hope: “no funds in this act will be used to support or justify torture.”
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 278. (1954 to go!)
$961 million to destroy our chemical weapons. Who was it, exactly, who convinced our government to pay billions to develop weapons we now find deplorable?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Here are a few more highlights:
o $1m for the Cultural Antiquities Task Force
o $6.25m for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation
o $20m for Countering Foreign State Propaganda
o $12m for Countering State Disinformation and Pressure— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
o $1.371bn for Contributions to International Organizations
o $51m to promote International Family Planning and Reproductive Health
o $7m promoting International Conservation
o $10m for UN Environmental Programs— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
o $12m for Scholarships for Lebanon
o $20m for Middle East Partnership Initiative Scholarship Program
o $12m in military funding for Vietnam
o $3.5m in nutrition assistance to Laos
o $15m in Developmental assistance to China
o $10m for Women LEOs in Afghanistan— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
But Brennan and Clapper too busy spewing hatred of Trump to respond to legitimate requests.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 348 of terrible, rotten, no-good budget busting bill, a nugget that I wish we obeyed
sec. 8103: none of the funds may be used in contravention of the War Powers Act
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
and I’m STILL reading. This bill is no @bradthor thriller.
Page 365:
Overseas contingency operations. aka military slush fund that circumvents budget caps.
All told, we’ve spent over a trillion dollars in this budget busting category.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
eyes getting tired but really someone should read this beast.
Page 392 sec 9007: no $ shall be spent “for the permanent stationing of US forces in Afghanistan”
Wonder what they meant by permanent? Some might argue that after 16 years we approaching the definition of permanent.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 447: a little over $30 billion for Dept of Energy
Wonder if anyone would notice if we had no Dept of Energy
Put oversight of nuclear waste in DOD and let supply & demand be our Energy policy
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 485: No $ used by the IRS to target citizens for exercising 1st amendment rights.
Do you think Lois Lerner knew about this part of the law before she targeted Tea Party groups? pic.twitter.com/t41kZ63oD8
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 485: No $ used by the IRS to target citizens for exercising 1st amendment rights.
Do you think Lois Lerner knew about this part of the law before she targeted Tea Party groups? pic.twitter.com/t41kZ63oD8
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Thanks Senator Paul. We appreciate the deep dive into all of the atrocities in spending that our government undertakes.
Unfortunately, that’s still less than 25% of the bill.
So we’ll never know how much of a complete ruckus it really is.
Stack accordingly…
– Half Dollar
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