Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about

Rand Paul calling out GOP book cooking. We've talked repeatedly about how Republican claims

about how much they'll be able to reduce the deficit or cut the debt are just wildly unrealistic.

The $2 trillion per year number was laughable. Then we heard $2 trillion over 10 years. Then a

trillion over 10 years. Then we got signs that they were going to try to play their base in

various ways. One way was multiple packages.

The first package would include cuts. The second and third would include a bunch of deficit

spending after they claimed victory. Republican Senator Rand Paul has identified another way

they plan on deceiving their base with what he calls

fake payfors. In Capitol Hill speak, a pay for is a cut to one part of the government so there

can be additional spending elsewhere. The Senate GOP package is expected to include hundreds of billions of dollars in new additional

spending. It seems like Paul found out, they were going to try to say they cut Biden's student

loan forgiveness program so they could hand more money over to defense contractors.

Paul said, quote,

the courts have already said that's not happening.

It has never taken place.

So to get rid of something that's never going to happen

is, to me and many others, a fake pay-for.

Paul has indicated that fake pay-for's would be a deal-breaker

for him, and he would be a no vote for a package including them. Despite all the rhetoric about

mandate, Republicans in the Senate are working with incredibly small margins. Paul indicated that the fake pay-for's

would be a deal-breaker for many GOP senators. It doesn't even have to be many. Less than a handful

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