Well, Senator Rand Paul has officially gone rogue again—this time siding with Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest of the anti-Trump globalist peanut gallery to kill off one of the boldest America First moves in years: President Trump’s proposed tariffs to protect U.S. manufacturing. You know, the kind of policy that actually puts American workers first for a change.
Paul’s big stand? Blocking President Trump’s emergency tariffs with a resolution he’s apparently confident will pass the Senate this week. That’s right, he’s teaming up with Democrats like Ron Wyden and Tim Kaine to gut the president’s authority to impose tariffs on foreign goods. Because nothing screams “limited government” like enabling the Chinese Communist Party to keep flooding our markets with cheap junk while Midwest factories rust into the ground.
Of course, Paul tried to wrap it all in Constitutional principles. “Tariffs are taxes,” he says, and therefore Congress should be in charge. Sure, Rand, let’s pretend for a minute that this is all about the Founders and not about kneecapping President Trump before he can put America back on a path of economic independence. It’s amazing how quickly libertarians become useful idiots for the Left when they don’t get their way.
“I would call it chicanery. I would call it dishonesty,” Paul said of Johnson’s move to tuck a provison blocking tariff resolutions into a rule. “I mean, it's just a terrible idea that he's actually overturning the law with a rule.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 28, 2025
Meanwhile, Paul is also throwing shade at House Speaker Mike Johnson for trying to block the resolution from being heard in the House. Paul called it “chicanery” and “dishonesty,” apparently forgetting that the real dishonesty is siding with Democrats to undermine a Republican president’s national security tools. Johnson’s doing exactly what a Republican Speaker should be doing: protecting the America First agenda from sabotage—foreign and domestic.
President Trump’s tariffs aren’t just a trade tool—they’re a weapon against the globalist economic order that’s gutted American industry for the last 30 years. They send a message that the U.S. isn’t a doormat anymore. But to people like Rand Paul, who still worship at the altar of free market absolutism even when China’s playing dirty, those tariffs are a problem. Maybe someone should tell Rand that Chinese steel and Mexican auto parts don’t care about his pocket Constitution.
Thankfully, the Trump White House isn’t backing down. The Office of Management and Budget made it crystal clear: President Trump will veto this resolution the second it hits his desk. And thank God for that, because we’ve already seen what happens when we let D.C. elites and their globalist pals run our economy into the ground. Let the tariffs roll.
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