Patriot,

Do you remember BBB?

Just four years ago, the Democrats and the Biden White House rammed through the $2.2 TRILLION “Build Back Better” Act which included elements tied to climate change and social policy.

You and I and others concerned about the rampant out-of-control spending put up a good fight to stop BBB, but in the end, it passed the U.S. Congress.

Now we have a new BBB.

As I detail in my latest column – read it below – the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is a financial disaster, and mostly due to its exorbitant level of military spending and a $5 TRILLION increase in the debt ceiling.

The neocons in Washington are doing everything possible to keep the spending spigot wide open and war in Ukraine going and preparing for more war – in the Middle East, Asia, or both.

And the “Big, Beautiful Bill” would commit hundreds of billions of dollars more to the war machine. It's not America First, it's business as usual in Washington.

At the end of the day, this isn’t the bill Donald Trump promised us. And it’s our U.S. Senators and Representatives to blame for this finished product that can only be described as a disaster.

The bill is still being debated in the U.S. Senate right now and votes are still in play. Its future is uncertain.

Even if you've already done so, please call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote NO on the Big, Not Beautiful Bill and go back to the drawing board.

And if you can, please support Campaign for Liberty with a contribution. We are standing up for what is right, even if it isn't popular with many who call themselves “conservative” – and we need your support to keep up the fight.

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For Liberty,

Ron Paul

<big><big>A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

The U.S Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday.

However, disagreements among Republican Senators over reductions in spending on programs including Medicaid and food stamps as well as language in the bill eliminating “clean energy” tax credits were preventing Senate Republican leadership from getting enough votes to pass the bill.

Also, some Republicans disagree with other Republicans in both the House and Senate on increasing the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. Many conservatives see this income tax deduction as encouraging states to maintain high taxes to fund big governments.

One item in the BBB that few Republicans are objecting to is the bill’s increase in military spending. The House version of the BBB added 150 billion dollars to the Pentagon’s already bloated budget. The Senate bill gave the military-industrial complex 156 billion dollars.

Increasing military spending contradicts President Trump’s promise to stop wasting money on endless wars that have nothing to do with ensuring the security of the American people.

Some of the BBB’s military spending will be used to put troops on the border. I support strengthening border security. However, I do not support using the military for domestic law enforcement, which includes enforcing immigration laws. Soldiers are trained to view people as potential enemies, not as innocent civilians to be protected. Introducing this mindset into domestic law enforcement will lead to abuses of liberty.

Increasing spending on militarism while cutting spending on programs that help low-income Americans is bad politics and bad policy. Polls show that the majority of Americans, including many Republicans, do not support overseas intervention.

The growing opposition to our hyper-interventionist foreign policy is easy to understand. The U.S. has engaged in numerous military actions in many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since the beginning of the 21st century. The American people pay for this militarism in several ways. One is the “inflation tax” imposed by the Federal Reserve in order to monetize the debt incurred by the US government for endless wars. President Trump has turned his back on his antiwar supporters by bombing Iran and by increasing military spending to over a trillion dollars.

The Republican insistence on increasing military spending is the main reason Congress cannot cut taxes without increasing the debt, making cuts in domestic welfare programs, or both. If the Republicans want to be the Make America Great Again party, they need to embrace a true America First foreign policy. This means no more regime change wars or U.S. taxpayer supported “color revolutions.” Instead, America should return to the Founders’ vision of a country that, in the words of John Quincy Adams, does not go “abroad in search of monsters to destroy” and instead is “the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all” while “the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

A return to a noninterventionist foreign policy is the only way we will be able to begin to pay down the national debt and restore a government that adheres to the constitutional limits on its powers and respects all the people’s rights all the time.

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