Here's What's Behind Rand Paul's New Defense Spending Proposal
Do the flip-flop accusations stick?
Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, speaks during a discussion on reforming the criminal justice system at Bowie State University on March 13, 2013 in Bowie, Maryland.
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Buried in the tree of amendments to the budget resolution is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's SA 940. It begins with this: “On page 14, line 2, increase the amount by $76,513,000,000.” As Bloomberg's Kathleen Miller and Erik Wasson report, Paul's proposal would plus up defense spending by almost $190 billion over the next two years.
According to Time, it represented “an about-face on a longstanding pledge to curb the growth in defense spending.”