Rand Paul
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Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist and the junior U.S. Senator (R) from Kentucky since 2011, a libertarian-leaning Republican and son of former Rep. Ron Paul. He ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination and is known for filibusters and fights against NSA mass surveillance, the Patriot Act, and federal spending. He chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (since 2025) and has been a leading critic of Anthony Fauci and U.S. COVID-19 policy.
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Washington shouldn’t be using your tax dollars for welfare benefits for people who are here illegally. My End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act would end federal benefits, like TANF, Medicaid, and SNAP, for illegal immigrants, refugees, and asylees. It’s simple: we need to put
12d ago · 1,385 likes
Socialism is the problem, not the answer. https://t.co/haNaDwFaOX
13d ago · 3,007 likes
Every family has to balance a checkbook. Washington should too. The deficit has passed $40 trillion, and both parties keep adding to it. My Six Penny Plan balances the budget in five years by cutting six cents from every dollar the federal government spends.
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Anthony Fauci wrote that when Trump learned NIH was funding a grant in Wuhan, Trump ordered it canceled “with no evidence to support any suspicion.” Fauci also wrote that a records request from NIH leadership to EcoHealth led to the emergence of the lab leak theory. Asking a
13d ago · 1,945 likes
The strongest case
A free society requires hard limits on state power: no bulk warrantless surveillance of citizens, no undeclared wars, no unaccountable bureaucracies, and defending constitutional civil liberties and fiscal restraint protects individuals against overreach regardless of which party holds power.
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Critics argue his near-absolutist limited-government stance and skepticism of public-health and national-security institutions can translate into obstruction of routine governance, and that some of his COVID-origins claims outran the settled evidence available at the time.
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In November 2017 Paul's neighbor Rene Boucher attacked him at his Kentucky home, breaking six of his ribs. Boucher pleaded guilty in federal court to assaulting a member of Congress (30 days in prison, a fine, community service); a Kentucky jury later awarded Paul $582,834 in a civil suit. Paul was the victim in both matters. [source]