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Rand Paul: GOP must consider military spending cuts
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Nov 07, 2010 06:11pm |
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| Author | David Edwards |
| News Date | Sunday, November 7, 2010 06:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Government spending is sure to be one of the biggest targets now that Republicans have won back the House, but there have been few details on exactly what programs will see their budgets slashed.
Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) probably surprised some Republicans Sunday when he said he would be willing to cut military spending.
"Yes, yes," Paul responded when asked if he would vote for defense cuts. In doing so, he highlighted the libertarian streak among some of the candidates propelled to office by the tea party movement. Like his father, Ron Paul, Rand Paul is considered to be at the libertarian end of the GOP's political spectrum, and libertarians have long been calling for a scaling back of US military ambitions.
In that respect, the new Congress could see some infighting among traditional Republican war-hawks and those seeking to do battle with the deficit.
"You need ... compromise on where the spending cuts come from," Paul told ABC's Christiane Amanpour. "Republicans traditionally say, oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military. The liberals -- the ones who are good -- will say, oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending."
"Bottom line is, you have to look at everything across the board," he added.
"Where, then? Military? Would you cut the military?" Amanpour asked.
"Yes. Yes," Paul replied. |
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