Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is facing criticism for requesting federal aid for his home state despite his long track record of opposing aid for other regions recovering from disasters.
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Paul, a Republican, shared a photo of a letter he sent to the Biden administration requesting"expeditious approval" of a request for federal aid made by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Requests like these by senators in states affected by a natural disaster are quite common, but Paul is facing blowback because he has opposed federal disaster relief for several affected regions throughout his Senate career.
"I would have given them 9 billion and I would've taken the 9 billion from somewhere else," Paul said in an interview with a local outlet at the time."I would have taken it from foreign aid and said, 'you know what, we don't have money for Egypt or Pakistan this year because we have to help the Northeast.'"
"They say we are out of money to pay for hurricane relief. So instead of finding that money somewhere else in the budget, they simply want to raise the limit on our credit card," Paul wrote."This has to stop. We spend too much. We owe too much. We cannot keep spending money we do not have."
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