Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America

We live on a house of cards because and most people don't know this and I don't want to scare your audience. Will this scare your audience if I tell too much? I voted to raise the age of Social Security, but it's not going to be around unless you raise the age to 70. That's the only way it sticks around. Do we really need American primacy?

He said when you go back to Washington, make sure they know that war with China is not inevitable. But I think it's overstated how great AI is going to be. The left, you know, has this uh modern monetary theory and it And it sounds ridiculous and it is, except that it kind of worked for 10 or 15 years. If 40 to 50 percent of Americans are employed directly or indirectly by a federal, state, or local government or government contractor or earn their income from a government check, can we actually reduce spending?

Here's the bottom line. I I voted against the big beautiful bill because of the debt ceiling, but also here's the projections. What was at the heart of the cover-up? There's never been a more extraordinary cover-up in the sense that these people were saying in public the opposite of what they were saying in private. I'm doing all in.

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