Rand Paul holds up vote on government funding bill as Congress approaches shutdown deadline
Source: CBS News
Sen. Rand Paul is holding up a vote on a bill that would keep the government funded in order to avert a government shutdown early Friday morning.
The Kentucky Republican explained in an interview with Fox News Thursday afternoon why he's blocking the vote on the measure, that includes a bipartisan budget deal to lift spending caps. He's demanding that GOP leaders allow a 15-minute vote on an amendment he crafted to maintain current spending ceilings.
"I'm not advocating for shutting down the government. I'm also not advocating for keeping the damn thing open and borrowing a million dollars a minute," Paul said.
Paul said that he had spoken to President Trump Thursday afternoon about the situation. 'I talked to him this afternoon," he said. "We had a good conversation. I told him to call up the majority leader, Senator McConnell, tell him that I wanted 15 minutes to have a vote to make a point that conservatives are unhappy with this deal. All they have to do -- I told him this at 11:00 a.m. this morning -- give me 15 minutes to debate, 15 minutes to vote and we could have been done by noon. But nobody wants to have it pointed out what an eye sore this deal is and how obnoxious it is to conservatives to spend good money after bad."
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Tax cuts fix everything!!!!!!!!!
Right, Rand? Rand? Hello Rand? Did you vote for the giant tax cuts for the poor millionaires and billionaires, Rand?
