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Third hour, Clay Ann Buck kicks off now, and we are joined by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Senator Paul.

Merry Christmas, sir.

Thank you for being with us.

Let's dive right into this.

What is going on with this continuing resolution?

Can you bring us up to speed with where

it stands now and just your overall assessment of the whole situation?

We have to put things into context. We have a government now that borrows $2 trillion a year.

So if we continue the spending, a continuing resolution at current levels, they'll borrow another $2 trillion at least next year. So if we continue the spending, a continuing resolution at current levels, they'll borrow

another $2 trillion at least next year. So a vote to continue the current spending is actually a very

big spending, liberal notion, one that's not fiscally conservative. So I don't support

continuing the current levels, but it's worse than that. Speaker Johnson has said, also, we're going to add $100 billion in disaster money,

and it's worse than that.

He then went to the big farm states with big spending Republicans, and they said,

we need another $30 billion in farm subsidies to make up for the income we lost from the tariffs

in the first Trump administration. So you've got $30 billion for farmers, $100 billion for disaster,

but then also the current level of spending, which is $2 trillion short. So if the speaker had a

spine, what he would have done has come forward with a bill that cut spending,

cut spending and see if you get the conservatives to go along with the bill that actually cuts spending.

But instead, he just added it and crammed it full of pork.

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