His amendment would add $76.5 billion to the defense budget
Just weeks before announcing his 2016 presidential bid, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is completing an about-face on a longstanding pledge to curb the growth in defense spending.
In an olive branch to defense hawks hell-bent on curtailing his White House ambitions, the libertarian Senator introduced a budget amendment late Wednesday calling for a nearly $190 billion infusion to the defense budget over the next two years—a roughly 16 percent increase.
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Poster Comment:
If I were Ron Paul, I'd have a rotating device installed in my future gravesite just to get a head start on spinning in my grave.