{"id":2371000,"date":"2024-11-19T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-says-he-is-all-in-on-helping-doge-cut-down-monster-spending-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:01:16","slug":"rand-paul-says-he-is-all-in-on-helping-doge-cut-down-monster-spending-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-says-he-is-all-in-on-helping-doge-cut-down-monster-spending-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul says he is \u2018all in\u2019 on helping DOGE cut down \u2018monster\u2019 spending &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frand-paul-says-he-is-all-in-on-helping-doge-cut-down-monster-spending-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2371000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator \u2064Rand Paul (R-KY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-unveils-his-ambitious-to-do-list-for-the-house\/\" title=\"Johnson reveals ambitious House to-do list.\">expressed \u200dstrong support<\/a> for efforts to \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hayward-five-ways-the-coronavirus-pandemic-strengthened-authoritarianism-worldwide\/\" title=\"Hayward: Five Ways the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Authoritarianism Worldwide\">reduce government spending<\/a>, aligning \u200bhimself \u200cwith billionaires Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk \u200cin their newly formed\u2063 initiative, the Department\u2063 of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During\u200c an appearance on Fox News, Paul mentioned that DOGE aims to cut wasteful\u2062 spending\u200d and potentially eliminate \u200dcertain government agencies. He \u2063enthusiastically\u2064 endorsed \u2062Ramaswamy&#8217;s vision, highlighting \u2064the significant amount of waste identified by the Senate, which amounts to 2,000 pages.\u2064 Paul emphasized the need for decisive action, suggesting that some \u2064government functions could be removed\u2063 altogether without noticeable detriment, specifically referencing the Department of Education.\u2064 He argued that the Department&#8217;s\u2064 dissolution could <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">potentially improve student outcomes<\/a>, citing a decline in educational performance over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-thorough-consider-the-inflation-crisis\/\" title=\"A Thorough Consider the Inflation Crisis\">past forty years<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Rand Paul says he is &lsquo;all in&rsquo; on helping DOGE cut down &lsquo;monster&rsquo; spending<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1885057\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) stated Tuesday that he is &ldquo;all in&rdquo; on helping billionaires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vivek-ramaswamy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a> in cutting down government spending through the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Ramaswamy has previewed the work that DOGE will do, stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3232691\/ramaswamy-deep-cuts-coming-government-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">certain government agencies could be cut &ldquo;outright&rdquo;<\/a> with &ldquo;massive cuts&rdquo; made on those overbilling the government.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Paul appeared on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Story on Martha MacCallum<\/em> and was asked about DOGE&rsquo;s expected accomplishments. The senator joked that he felt as if he was at a revival meeting where he could say &ldquo;amen&rdquo; to Ramaswamy&rsquo;s aspirations, adding that the Senate has already sent DOGE &ldquo;2,000 pages of waste that can be cut.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m all in and will do anything I can to help them,&rdquo; Paul said. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve never had a president and a team like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that have this degree of momentum, incisiveness, and frankly, energy and drive to do it. That&rsquo;s what it takes. It&rsquo;s a monster, it&rsquo;s a leviathan, but can you cut? Sure, you can cut. You can cut through attrition, you can cut through letting people go. There are some departments that would be gone and you would not know.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2701366&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=00129c93a8ba3c96f9b5a7b7c2a989a2\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul contended that the Department of Education could disappear without being missed, a move that lines up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3232494\/trump-wants-to-abolish-the-department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump&rsquo;s promise to abolish it under his watch<\/a>. The Republican senator argued that the scores and performances of students have worsened in the last forty years. He noted that getting rid of the Department of Education could even help these students as local control in schools would increase.<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum pointed to a factor Musk has touted in abolishing the DOE, being that members of the DOE would be given two years of severance to find a job, and asked Paul if this can be achieved. Paul contended that while this is &ldquo;yet to be determined,&rdquo; one way this could be accomplished is through &ldquo;a rescission package,&rdquo; which would only need a simple majority to pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So if rescission would work, and all the Republicans stay together, you could cut billions, if not trillions, of dollars in spending,&rdquo; Paul said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DOGE&rsquo;s X account has promoted that it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3230347\/musk-ramaswamy-doge-jobs-work-80-hours-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">hiring &ldquo;revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week&rdquo;<\/a> ahead of Trump&rsquo;s administration entering the White House. The president-elect has stated that Musk and Ramaswamy&rsquo;s work &ldquo;will conclude no later than July 4, 2026,&rdquo; which happens to be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1885057\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1885057\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul fully supports DOGE&#8217;s efforts to reduce spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2371001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Rand-Paul-DOGE-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23466,38952,3834],"class_list":["post-2371000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-doge","tag-rand-paul","tag-spending"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Rand-Paul-DOGE-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371004,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371000\/revisions\/2371004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}