Actually, Rand Paul Will Support Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State
Paul says he's reversed his stance on Trump's nominee after several conversations with the president.
Paul says he's reversed his stance on Trump's nominee after several conversations with the president.
"The president has been very specific, at times, on this," Paul said. "He said 'it is time to get out of Afghanistan.'"
The spending bill is a product of a broken, secretive, centralized legislative process.
Plus: Facebook goes after Trump's social media firm, and Trump tiptoes toward a trade war.
Paul says Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to be the next secretary of state, will repeat the foreign policy mistakes of the past two decades.
Given the state of the modern GOP, that's a very big "if." But the senator is trying for a vote again this week.
Senator tells Reason "most of the businesses in Kentucky are quite worried about a trade war." But will a weak Congress confront Trump?
John Stossel picks the best and worst political performances of the year.
Here are the moments when Republicans, including professed deficit hawks, snuffed out the 2009-2014 flicker of budgetary sanity
Celebrities and sitting legislators prefer physical violence to fiscal restraint.
"What you are seeing is recklessness being passed off as bipartisanship," said Paul on the Senate floor.
Because nothing in Washington is more terrifying than the prospect of a minuscule spending reduction
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.
He assaulted the Kentucky senator over a brush pile.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Lawmakers will advance legislation that expands the power of the feds to snoop on American citizens.
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
An establishment GOP candidate looks back at why Paul beat him
Draft regulations would expand access to association health plans.
Senators demand discussion of protections for Americans against unwarranted snooping.
On today's show, Reason's editors discuss the attack on Rand Paul, the Texas mass shooting, and the election results.
Unprovoked physical assault normally invites sympathy, unless your politics are too weird.
Reason's Andrew Heaton steps into Bold TV.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
Ted Cruz joins Rand Paul and Mike Lee in enthusiastically endorsing lawless jurist Roy Moore.
What kind of cheerleader for war doesn't know how many troops are where?
After all that fuss from 2009 onward, Rand Paul is the last Republican left objecting to the continued growth of government.
Libertarian-leaning Republicans who endorsed Moore should hang their heads in shame
If ever there were a would-be colleague who someone of even slight libertarian tendencies should be leery of, it is Roy Moore.
Rand Paul squares off against John McCain yet again on military spending, in a fight that could derail both the budget and tax reform.
The ailing senator is right that "half-baked, spurious nationalism" is wrong. But so is his brand of hawkish intervention.
Paul says he won't be swayed by Trump's threats. "I'm a big boy."
A looming Senate deadline might push holdout Republican senators over the line.
Reason editors talk single-payer health care, Rand Paul's push to deauthorize foreign wars, and Chelsea Manning vs. Harvard.
Kentucky senator talks about his vote on intervention-authorizations, says John McCain "has never met a war he wasn't interested in getting the U.S. involved in," and worries about "these generals whispering in" Trump's "ears every day."
Matt Welch interviews the libertarian-leaning legislators, as well as Emily Yoffe and Eli Lake, on Channel 121
"The neoconservatives and the neoliberals believe the president has unlimited authority," senator complains during unsuccessful attempt to repeal the post-9/11 authorizations for the use of military force.
Paul announces that his move won four hours of floor debate in Senate over ending the 16-year-old Authorization for the Use of Military Force that launched modern war on terror.
Trump's rescinding of DACA has produced widespread condemnation and a demand that Congress act to reform immigration.
Behold a squabbling but still powerful coalition of nationalist authoritarians, immovable interventionists, finger-in-the-wind opportunists, and vastly outnumbered libertarian-leaners.
Paul: "If every Republican that voted for the clean repeal in the past votes for it again, it would pass."
The cancer-stricken senator's eternal pursuit of honor and integrity are a welcome tonic in a tawdry age, even while his policy misjudgments helped pave the way for the new Republican politics he abhors.
It took two libertarian-leaners, one moderate, and a Kansan irked at the process to deny Donald Trump his unpopular, critically panned legislation.
Mike Lee makes the argument in favor, as he tries to steer the president toward the devolution of power
In interview, the Utah senator signals a make-or-break moment for the Obamacare revamp, while Mike Rounds tries to bridge the moderate-conservative gap.