Killing suspected drug traffickers is both unjust and illegal. And it could be the start of an effort to turn the already awful War on Drugs into something more like a real war, thereby making it even worse.
The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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The Antisemitism Awareness Act threatens the First Amendment by empowering federal bureaucrats to police political and religious expression.
The Kentucky senator is also not a big fan of military parades, populist economics, or shredding due process.
The budget legislation is full of other expensive provisions that will add trillions to our sky-high national debt.
Paul said he refuses to support "maintaining Biden spending levels," and Musk said the Trump-backed tax bill is "a disgusting abomination."
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
When compared to the most likely alternatives, DOGE has cut as much government as one could hope for.
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
The Kentucky senator joins Just Asking Questions to explain why he's fighting against the president's unilateral tariffs.
Bills introduced Tuesday in the House and Senate would terminate the emergency declaration Trump issued last week.
The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade.
Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon, the Trump administration says. But this hasn’t stopped the march toward war.
Last month, the U.K. reportedly demanded access to any Apple user's data anywhere in the world. Paul wants to know if any other companies have received similar orders recently.
"I really haven't had anybody come up to me and say, 'Please, please, put tariffs on me,'" says Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).
"The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
"Every day I confront a bill that wants to ban another Chinese company," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
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Sen. Rand Paul's bill to require congressional consent for tariffs is getting new attention in the final weeks before Trump's return to power.
It would take nearly $8 trillion in budget cuts merely to stabilize the national debt so it does not grow faster than the economy.
In a letter to his colleagues, Paul says the committee's "mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself."
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
Libertarians probably aren't buying what Liz Cheney is selling.
The budget could be balanced by cutting just six pennies from every dollar the government spends. It used to require even less.
Sen. Rand Paul makes the case against the Kids Online Safety Act.
Only Sens. Paul and Wyden are expected to vote "no" on Tuesday. Power to stop KOSA now resides with the House.
Sen. Rand Paul writes that repealing the Robinson-Patman Act would help bust inflation.
"Documented Dreamers" continue to have to leave the country even though this is the only home many have ever known.
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The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
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"It's a disturbing gift of unprecedented authority to President Biden and the Surveillance State," said Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).
The Royalty Transparency Act passed unanimously out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday.
Sweden reformed socialistic aspects of its pension system and introduced partial privatization.
Republican lawmakers criticized the former NIH official for playing "semantics" about lab leaks and gain-of-function research during closed-door congressional testimony this week.
Government is "promoting bad behavior," says Sen. Rand Paul. He's right.
Section 702 will continue until April, when Congress will have another shot at seriously reforming a program that desperately needs it.
The senator has introduced an amendment to the AM For Every Vehicle Act, sponsored by Sens. Ed Markey and Ted Cruz.
"The FDA's regulations related to animal testing no longer fully conform with applicable law," writes the Kentucky senator.
