{"id":2444548,"date":"2025-06-08T17:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-compares-congress-to-drunken-teenagers-needing-oversight-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:51:42","slug":"paul-compares-congress-to-drunken-teenagers-needing-oversight-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-compares-congress-to-drunken-teenagers-needing-oversight-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul compares Congress to &#8216;drunken teenagers&#8217; needing oversight &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fpaul-compares-congress-to-drunken-teenagers-needing-oversight-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=2444548&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 Rand Paul (R-KY) is vocal in his opposition to raising the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-with-full-control-of-government-democrats-massive-wish-list-is-stalling\/\" title=\"Even With Full Control Of Government, Democrats\u2019 Massive Wish List Is Stalling\">debt ceiling<\/a> as Congress prepares to vote on the &#8220;Big Lovely Bill Act.&#8221; He argues that the bill, which proposes approximately $400 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 ...s\">tax cuts<\/a>, does not adequately address the issues of increasing goverment debt. Paul&#8217;s primary concern is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-freedom-caucus-vows-to-end-wasteful-woke-weaponized-bureaucracy\/\" title=\"House Freedom Caucus Vows to End \u2018Wasteful, Woke, Weaponized Bureaucracy\u2019\">proposed spending cuts<\/a> are insufficient, predicting that the deficit will exceed $2 trillion in the coming year while Congress seeks to extend their credit line to an additional $5 trillion. He compares Congress&#8217;s fiscal responsibility to that of &#8220;drunken teenagers&#8221; and has suggested an amendment to limit debt ceiling increases to every three months. Despite ongoing pressure from figures like former President donald trump, who criticized him for his constant opposition without offering constructive solutions, Paul remains steadfast in his stance against the current legislation.  <\/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\">Paul says reconciliation bill should be split up to rein in Congress debt expansion<\/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_2140590\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) continued to object to raising the debt ceiling for government spending as his chamber is about to vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3428388\/riley-moore-doge-cuts-rescission-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big&nbsp;Beautiful&nbsp;Bill Act<\/a>, calling for Congress to reign in its debt expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is not the only critic of the spending and tax legislation. The bill has come&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3419268\/five-house-republicans-vote-no-one-big-beautiful-bill-passage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under scrutiny<\/a>&nbsp;from Republican senators for costing some $400 billion in tax cuts. Paul appeared on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo<\/em> to detail his objections, which do not include the tax cuts since he supports them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3433970\/north-carolina-tobacco-farmers-republicans-remove-hidden-tax-big-beautiful-bill\/\">North Carolina Republicans push to remove &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-swamp-hit-households-with-16000-hidden-tax-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s \u2018swamp\u2019 hit households with ,000 \u2018hidden tax\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">hidden tax&#038;rsquo<\/a>; from &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217; after pressure campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3433122\/katie-britt-increase-child-care-tax-credit-big-beautiful-bill\/\">Katie Britt pushes to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >increase child care tax credit<\/a> in One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3433151\/chris-murphy-democratic-party-corruption\/\">Sen. Chris Murphy says the Democratic Party isn&#8217;t &#8216;terribly credible&#8217; on corruption<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The spending cuts are not nearly enough. The other way to look at that is ask, year to year will we spend more money next year than last year? The answer is gonna be yes. Will the deficit be over $2 trillion next year? The answer is yes. This is why my big objection to the bill is they want to ask us to expand their credit line to $5 trillion,&rdquo; Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, if your teenager at 16, you gave them a credit card and they maxed it out on booze and gambling and they were $2,000 in debt and they said, &lsquo;Well, Mom, Dad, I want more credit.&rsquo; Would you give them more credit?&rdquo; the senator continued. &ldquo;Congress is like drunken teenagers. They&rsquo;re terrible with money.&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=2971398&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=cafbde75b225c45c6d4605ed458e4ad6\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul attempted to add his own amendment that would only raise the debt ceiling every three months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3430922\/trumps-criticism-of-rand-paul-wrong-and-misguided\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S CRITICISM OF RAND PAUL IS WRONG AND MISGUIDED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul continues to hold strong to his stance despite pressure from President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114619648032728687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>, Trump claimed, &ldquo;Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky senator has said he does &ldquo;want to vote for it.&rdquo; However, Paul has also suggested he knows of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3427909\/paul-four-republicans-opposed-trump-tax-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four&nbsp;Republican<\/a>&nbsp;senators prepared to vote against the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill.&rdquo;<\/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_2140590\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2140590\"}});<\/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>Paul argues the reconciliation bill should be divided to control Congress&#8217;s debt growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2444549,"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\/09\/rand-paul-rfk-trump-1024x591.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,56767,5618,5531,32076],"class_list":["post-2444548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-drunken-teenagers","tag-oversight","tag-paul","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rand-paul-rfk-trump-1024x591.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444548","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444552,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444548\/revisions\/2444552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}