Rand Paul: “Congress ought to fund border security, but we should be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and fully pay for the $70…”

“Congress ought to fund border security, but we should be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and fully pay for the $70 billion to secure our borders. My amendment would eliminate over $5 billion in refugee welfare, cut over $45 billion in foreign aid, and slash the National Science Foundation by nearly $4 billion, as well as reducing the Department of Education by 16 percent. This is consistent with the Trump administration's goal of returning educational authority to the States. These reductions would be made in just one fiscal year and would fully pay for border security. With $2 trillion deficits and a $39 trillion debt, we must stop handouts to refugees, countries that hate the United States, and Federal Agencies that study such things as frog mating calls in Panama. Let's pay for the border security. I ask for a ``yes'' vote.”