Rand Paul Wants DOGE To Build a $500 Billion Rescission Package for Congress To Approve
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is no newcomer to pointing out silly ways that the federal government wastes taxpayer dollars—like the time the National Institutes of Health spent over $300,000 to study whether quails got more frisky after being fed cocaine, which has been a staple of his speeches for years.
So he’s pretty thrilled to see the executive branch focused on cutting wasteful spending.
“We’ve been pointing this out for a decade, but now we finally have an administration that’s interested in it—they are canceling contracts, locking doors, firing people. There really is this disrupting force, and that’s good,” Paul told Reason in an interview on Wednesday.
Nearly a month after President Donald Trump returned to office and unleashed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on the administrative state, Paul says DOGE is “doing a great job,” and he’s looking forward to making some of those changes permanent.
Doing that will require a few additional steps.
“If we want to have real savings, they’re going to have to send this back to Congress, and Congress is going to have to approve of spending less money,” Paul said.
During a weekly meeting of Republican senators earlier on Wednesday, Paul encouraged Vice President J.D. Vance to have the Trump administration draw up a resciss
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