On Thursday afternoon Sen. That leaves Paul with only 38 more slots to fill on his team. “I will spend every ounce of energy to stop [the budget deal]”.
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“I think it is a awful – it’s hard for me to not use profanity in describing it”, Paul said.
The accord reverses $80 billion in mandatory spending cuts, prevents Medicare premium hikes on seniors and shores up the Social Security Disability Insurance fund. It also raises the debt limit until March 2017, after next year’s presidential election. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, is having trouble expressing just how unhappy he is with the budget and debt ceiling deal negotiated between the White House and Congress this week. But he can talk about it for a while.
As Politico reports, there were multiple complaints during a “tense” meeting between campaign representatives and RNC officials in the lead-up to tonight’s CNBC debate. That’s when things will get interesting.
That’s because several hours before he and nine other GOP presidential candidates took the stage in Boulder, Colorado, Paul’s fellow Kentuckian, Majority Leader Mitch Mitch McConnell, filed cloture on the budget legislation.
Hillary Clinton stresses that she isn’t running for President Barack Obama’s third term – or her husband’s third term – and during an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, gave a very direct response on what would happen if the nation’s biggest financial institutions got into trouble. “We have an understanding of what works”.
The choice is hardly a surprise; the Paul and Huffines families are well-known as prominent Texas families in politics and business who have been close for decades.
“You’re going to see more community activity”.
Trump’s assigned space resembled a presidential suite, while Paul’s looked more like a closet with a small bathroom. The move has been effective.
The House is poised Wednesday to approve a two-year government funding bill that raises the spending caps set in 2011 while avoiding a potential default on USA loans. Ted Cruz a fiscal conservative?
“I will stand firm”, he said in his opening statement.
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Paul’s ability to stall or block the bill is limited by the rules of the Senate, which don’t allow for the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington style filibusters of popular imagination. His campaign desperately needs the bump a successful filibuster might have given him: he has sunk in polls from a high of 10% in May to 3.4%, according a RealClearPolitics average of national polls. “Sooner or later, a few of these candidates are going to have to drop out for the good of the rest”.
