A top aide to President Trump took aim at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday over Paul’s objections to the president’s agenda-setting tax and spending measure while protests are underway in Los Angeles over the administration’s immigration crackdown.
“While ICE officers are battling violent mobs in Los Angeles, Rand Paul is trying to cut funding for deportations and border security,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote in a post on the social platform X.
Paul has emerged as one of the most vocal Republican opponents of Trump’s megabill because of its price tag and increase to the federal debt.
Paul and other GOP senators vowed to vote against the bill after narrowly passed the Republican-controlled House last month unless additional spending cuts are made.
“Congress is like drunken teenagers, they’re terrible with money,” Paul said during an appearance this weekend on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This is literally out of control.”
He reiterated his position on X after Miller’s rebuke Monday.
“Don’t fall for the Swamp’s version of reality, where they claim we either borrow against our future to secure our border now, or we have wide-open borders,” he wrote. “We can have BOTH border security AND fiscal responsibility; $75 billion is more than enough to accomplish both.”