"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."
"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."
Senator Rand Paul sharply criticized the Republican continuing resolution for adding roughly $2 trillion to the national debt while noting a Democratic plan would add about $3 trillion. He highlighted a $37 trillion federal debt and said he opposes further deficit spending. He proposed the Penny Plan as an alternative to balance the budget over five years and pledged to support measures with smaller deficits. He warned the Republican CR negates cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), reinstates foreign aid, and restores rescission-package reductions, urging a conservative Republican wing to resist deficit growth.
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