Sen. Rand Paul is dinging his fellow Sen. Marco Rubio for missing a big spending vote last week, calling on his Republican president opponent to either resign from office or give back his pay.
“I think really that he ought to just resign or probably give his pay back because he’s not really earning his pay at this point,” Paul said on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.
For months Paul has been hounding Rubio, who is far exceeding him in polling, over missing Senate votes while campaigning for president. But in the last week the Kentucky senator has started calling for his Florida colleague to actually give up his seat or his pay to make up for being absent.
As the Senate passed a massive $1.8 trillion spending and tax package last Friday, Rubio was campaigning in Iowa and Missouri and missed voting on the bill.
“It may have been the most important vote of the year but certainly the largest spending bill of the year … and yeah, I think if you are being paid by the taxpayer you should show up and vote,” Paul said. “And so I think this is a big issue and I think for him to say he’s only going to show up when he thinks it’s a close vote, I don’t think that passes muster.”
