Rand Paul Refunds Unused Office Budget to the Treasury
Gives back $600K
Sen. Rand Paul is taking his own message of fiscal conservatism to heart, returning about 17 percent of his Senate office budget to the U.S. Treasury.
"It's the only budget I control," Paul (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday at a news conference in Louisville, Ky., according to a Thursday report in The Courier-Journal, a Louisville-based publication. "It's not enough, but it's a start."
Paul, who is set to return $600,000 from his $3.5 million office budget, has returned six-figure sums before.
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obviously old people will now be forced to work the salt mines. that black-hearted bastard.
doesn't he know jesse jackson could reccomend some great bargains for that money? he's only letting ti go to waste.