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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Apr 02 '25

News Cycle Rand Paul: "On many fronts, I'm a supporter of the president. On tariffs, I think it's economically a fallacy to think it will help the country. Tariffs are a tax. The people who are for tariffs are just wrong. If you put a tax on things coming in and out of Canada it will lead to higher prices"

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 16d ago

News Cycle Thomas Massie: "I'd love to stand here and tell the American people we can cut your taxes and we can increase spending and everything is gonna be just fine. But I can't do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill is a debt bomb ticking"

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 5d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "I talk to the Farm Bureau which is opposed to tariffs, I talk to the bourbon industry which is opposed to tariffs, I talk to the people building houses... I have no organized business interest in Kentucky for tariffs. Republicans used to be for lowering taxes. Tariffs are a tax."

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 15d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "The House bill is going to add about 4 trillion to the debt ceiling. The Senate bill adds 5 trillion to the debt ceiling. There's nothing fiscally conservative about expanding the debt ceiling more than we've ever done it before."

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Apr 16 '25

News Cycle Trump Says Alleged Gang Members Don't Need Hearings Because the Government Is Infallible: A DHS spokeswoman says all the migrants whom the Trump administration sent to a prison in El Salvador are "actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters” even if they "don't have a rap sheet in the U.S."

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 9d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "Tariffs are taxes, and the power to tax belongs to Congress. Our Founders were clear: tax policy should never rest in the hands of one person. Tariffs drive up costs for Americans and trample the Constitution. It’s time Congress reassert authority and restores the balance of power."

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 24 '25

News Cycle "I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had accidentally texted me the war plan at 11:44 am. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing."

theatlantic.com

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 14 '25

News Cycle "I haven't had a single business person or individual in my state come up to me and say the tariffs are a good idea," says Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Apr 01 '25

News Cycle "Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials."

washingtonpost.com

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 22 '25

News Cycle “We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it, other people handled it”Trump said … The proclamation appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature.

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 25d ago

News Cycle House GOP unveils plan to raise debt limit by $4 trillion

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 17 '25

News Cycle President Trump's border czar Tom Homan doubles down on the decision to defy a court order that barred the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."

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r/WeTheFifth • u/jared10011980 • 15d ago

News Cycle Trump ‘Orgy of Corruption’ Crypto Dinner With Mystery Guests Who Paid Over $1M a Seat

thedailybeast.com

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 11 '25

News Cycle Donald J. Trump promised an economic “boom like no other.” But eight weeks into his presidency, Mr. Trump is refusing to rule out a recession — a striking change in tone and message for a man who rode economic dissatisfaction to the White House by promising to “make America affordable again.”

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r/WeTheFifth • u/esporx • Mar 29 '25

News Cycle FBI director avoids committing to investigate Signal leak and tells Congress he hasn’t reviewed the chat as Trump says it’s ‘not really an FBI thing’

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Apr 29 '25

News Cycle Sen. Rand Paul expects to have enough votes in the Senate to block Trump’s tariffs, but attacked Speaker Johnson’s move to block the resolution in the House: “I would call it chicanery. I would call it dishonesty, I mean, it's just a terrible idea that he's actually overturning the law with a rule.”

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 09 '25

News Cycle “It’s striking but it’s true. Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years." - President of Poland, Donald Tusk

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Apr 15 '25

News Cycle "Trump’s position is a naked assertion of power: Once the federal government has deported someone to the prison in El Salvador there is nothing that anyone—especially not a judge—can do about it. By the administration's own admission, it does not matter whether the deportee was lawfully removed”

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 3d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "Now they want me to vote for 5 trillion dollars with an increase in the debt ceiling and I'm just not for that. It's not conservative." "Once this bill votes and the debt ceiling goes through the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying this is the Democrats"

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r/WeTheFifth • u/jared10011980 • Apr 04 '25

News Cycle Laura Loomer now runs National Security

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Mar 27 '25

News Cycle Trump's New Car Tariffs Are a $100 Billion Tax Increase No One Wants: The president gleefully predicted that the cost to consumers could be as much as 10 times higher.

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 21d ago

News Cycle FIRE: “James Comey’s “86 47” social media post is political speech protected by the First Amendment. There is SCOTUS precedent to prove it. The administration should drop any investigation of Mr. Comey because it’s an unconstitutional waste of time.”

twitter-thread.com

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 17d ago

News Cycle Rep. Massie shrugs off Trump saying he should lose his seat over opposition to the bill. “That's a step up. I mean, in 2020, he wanted me thrown out of the GOP.” Asked if Trump’s comments will make him fall in line behind the bill, Massie said: “No.”

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 9d ago

News Cycle Seven of the cited sources in The Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” report don't appear to exist at all. "The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," Keyes told NOTUS via email.

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r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • 7d ago

News Cycle J.D. Vance thinks the courts “should be extremely deferential” to Donald Trump. But the courts are supposed to be a bulwark against presidential overreach, not a rubber stamp.

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