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Trump Seethes Over Rand Paul Continuing To Oppose 'Big, Beautiful Bill'

President Donald Trump is fuming at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for refusing to support his “big, beautiful bill” and is blasting the Republican senator on social media.

“Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming,” Trump wrote Tuesday on his Truth Social platform. “He loves voting ‘NO’ on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!”

“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas,” the president wrote in a separate post later Tuesday. “His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!”

The bill, formally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, calls for $4 trillion in tax cuts and billions for Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Meanwhile, it could kick millions of people off Medicaid and curb eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which some 42 million people rely on to buy food each month.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation would add more than $2 trillion to federal budget deficits over 10 years, something Paul isn’t happy with.

“The problem is the math doesn’t add up,” the Republican said Sunday on Fox News. “They’re going to explode the debt by — the House says $4 trillion, the Senate’s actually been talking about ... $5 trillion. This year, in September … the deficit will be about $2.2 trillion.”

“The Republicans would say, ‘Well, that’s Bidenomics! That’s [former President Joe] Biden spending levels!’” Paul continued. “Well, in March, every Republican, virtually every Republican other than me, voted to continue the Biden spending level.”

“That’s just not conservative,” he added.

Trump believes expanding the debt ceiling and extending tax cuts will improve the economy.

Trump may be unable to ignore Paul’s perspective, since the fate of his bill now rests with the U.S. Senate. Senate Republicans can only afford to lose three GOP votes to pass the bill with a simple majority if all Democrats vote against it, as expected.

Yet only a handful of Republican senators are currently calling for changes to the bill, which Trump hopes to have on his desk by July 4. Paul told reporters Monday that he’s had a lengthy chat with Trump about his concerns, but that the president “did most of the talking.”