Budget hawk Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday mocked the Senate plan to cut $9.4 billion in Biden-era spending, demanding that if the chamber can’t make cuts of $100 billion or more, then the “public needs to get new senators.”
While committing to vote for the cuts in a spending recissions legislation this week, Paul called the total “a rounding error” compared to the nearly $2 trillion federal deficit.
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