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- The Budget: Balance the budget. Slash spending, but raise defense. Paul has outlined one of the most aggressive spending cut proposals in Congress — it would balance the federal budget within five years.
- Government power: Repeal the Patriot Act. End large-scale data collection. Paul adamantly opposes the Patriot Act and granting government any warrantless or unilateral data collection powers over private citizens.
- Government size: Shut down Department of Education. And the TSA. The Department of Education would dissolve under a Paul proposal. He would close the agency and disperse funding to state and local programs.
- Immigration: Reform, with some requirements. A self-described “moderate” on the issue, Paul has said the Republican party needs to welcome immigrants and that he could support immigration reform if it includes verifiable border security and an increase in legal immigration, especially more visas for agricultural workers.
Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has described himself as a constitutional conservative and is a supporter of the Tea Party movement.
- Government shouldn't require private businesses to serve customers of all races. "I don’t like the idea of telling private business owners — I abhor racism.
- The U.S. is secretly planning a European Union-style merger with Mexico and Canada. "I saw the YouTube of [former Mexican president] Vincente Fox talking about [the single North American currency] the Amero.
- A nuclear Iran isn't necessarily a threat. "Our national security is not threatened by Iran having one nuclear weapon." —Ron Paul rally, Burlington, VT, October 2007.
- Rein in Medicare — but not Medicare's payments to doctors (presumably including Rand Paul, a practicing optometrist who says half his patients are on Medicare)
Rand Paul is a member of the Republican Party, a U.S. Senator representing the state of Kentucky since 2011, [1] and a former candidate for president of the United States. [2] . His voting record was rated 26% liberal in 2011 by National Journal. [3]
Jun 25, 2024 · Paul is one of the last Republicans in Congress to withhold an endorsement, although he did publicly support Trump during the former president's recent criminal trial in Manhattan and called...
Aug 15, 2022 · Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for the Espionage Act to be repealed amid a federal investigation into the possible mishandling of government records and classified documents that were found...
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Oct 26, 2022 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rand Paul was a political outsider more than a decade ago when the renegade Republican rode a conservative tea party wave right past the GOP establishment in Kentucky, bringing his libertarian-leaning brand to the U.S. Senate.
