Rand Paul: “Today we will consider funding to address the humanitarian crisis on the border. The spending bill will be $4 billion.…”

“Today we will consider funding to address the humanitarian crisis on the border. The spending bill will be $4 billion. While there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, we also have in our country a debt crisis. We are adding debt at about $1 trillion every year. The overall debt is $22 trillion, and the interest on the debt that we have to pay every year is exploding such that it is crowding out other spending. While I do agree that there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, we must not ignore the debt crisis that faces our country. We should not borrow the money and pull out the credit card, yet again, every time a crisis occurs. Congress has an obligation to find lower priorities to cut to pay for higher priorities. I thought that is what legislating was about. You are supposed to say that right now we have a crisis at the border. So maybe we are not going to send welfare to foreign countries. Every American family has to make these decisions. Why doesn't Congress? What Congress does is simply add it to the bill your kids and your grandkids will be paying. I am proposing to actually pay for this by taking the money from a part of the budget that is being wasted and put it into the humanitarian crisis on the border. Should we provide care and shelter to immigrants at the border or should we be paying for clown shows and a traveling circus?…”