Rand Paul on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: ‘Somebody Has to Stand Up and Yell “The Emperor Has No Clothes”’

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PAUL: “I'm all for the DOGE cuts, and I'll vote for every one of them. But the administration now is afraid to send them back because Republican leadership on both sides is saying, we're not sure we can pass a $9 billion cut. And so what we're really stuck with is the math doesn't work. All the great DOGE stuff, all the great stuff Elon Musk has done is out there, and people are going to wake up in about two months and say, how come the deficit's still $2.2 trillion? Where did the savings go? People are going to be very disappointed, conservatives, and I'm the one ringing the alarm saying they're not doing anything. They're not sending us a rescission package. They're not cutting spending. Somebody has to stand up and yell, the emperor has no clothes, and everybody's falling in lockstep on this. Pass the big, beautiful bill. Don't question anything. Well, conservatives do need to stand up and have their voice heard. This is a problem we've been facing for decades now, and if we don't stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going.”