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Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025

Floor Speech

By: Rand Paul
By: Rand Paul
Date: March 14, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 1266 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I compliment President Trump and DOGE for exposing waste and abuse in foreign aid spending. It boggles the mind to think that some in Congress defend spending $2 million on sex changes in Guatemala, thousands on an LGBT opera in Colombia, and thousands on a trans comic book in Peru. This is the low-hanging fruit. If Congress can't vote to cut this egregious, crazy, leftwing lunacy, will Congress ever have the courage to tackle entitlements?

Yet there does remain a significant constitutional question as to whether these cuts need a congressional vote to give them permanence. Today, with my amendment, Congress can make these foreign aid cuts the law.
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