Ron Paul offered this jaw-dropping list of New Year’s resolutions
Americans turned the page on 2024.
2025 is upon us.
And Ron Paul offered this jaw-dropping list of New Year’s resolutions.
Ron Paul’s New Year’s resolutions for Washington
When in Congress, Ron Paul was known as the most principled champion of small government and the Constitution.
Paul earned the nickname “Dr. No” for his willingness to cast the sole no vote on bills that would pass 434-1 because Paul said the legislation violated the Constitution.
Dr. Paul left Congress in 2012, but he’s continued writing columns and opining on American politics.
Paul’s latest column outlined a number of New Year’s resolutions for the incoming Congress and administration.
First up was Congress.
Paul urged Congress to give up its addiction to a multi-thousand page, multi-trillion spending bill that concealed unconstitutional attacks on American’s liberties such as illegal spying and online censorship.
“Next month the 119th US Congress will be sworn in, with Republican majorities in both Houses. With every opinion poll we see how the US public holds Congress in contempt. How about doing something about it? What about returning to the Constitution?” Paul wrote.
Paul went on to say Congress should recommit itself to passing clean, single issue spending bills that balance the budget and stay within the framework of the Constitution.
“That means no more 1,500 page omnibus spending bills which hide countless unconstitutional surveillance, censorship, and police state measures behind convoluted legislative language. Return to the normal legislative process and pass individual, clean appropriations bills with open rules that allow maximum participation from each Member or Senator,” Paul added.
As for Donald Trump, Paul argued that Trump should withdraw the 2,000 American troops stationed in Syria now that rebels linked to Al Qaeda took over the country.
“Trump appealed to war-weary American voters by promising no new wars and an end to the current conflicts we are involved in overseas. A good place to start would be an announcement on day one that US troops would be removed from Syria. We learned only last week that the Biden Administration had been lying to us about the number of troops in Syria, but the real question is why do we have troops there at all? Trump rightly,” Paul continued.
Paul said Congress can only help rein in out of control spending by cutting off the funding for the failed war in Ukraine.
“Likewise, Ukraine. As a parting “gift” to the American people, President Biden just announced another six billion to Ukraine. Most of that money – like the billions before – will end up in the hands of the US military-industrial complex, with a few billion stolen by the corrupt Ukraine government,” Paul wrote.
Paul argued that since all sides agree that Ukraine is losing the war, it’s time to wrap this mistake up.
“Even the US mainstream media admits that Ukraine has lost the war. So why are we draining the US treasury and draining the population of Ukraine for a lost cause? President Trump: end the funding and end the war,” Paul declared.
Finally, Paul did express optimism about Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel – Trump’s picks to serve as Director of National Intelligence and FBI respectively – arguing that they are fierce opponents of illegal spying and other power grabs that allowed the deep state to shred the Constitution in its pursuit of President-elect Trump and his supporters.
“We should be cautiously optimistic that should Trump’s nominees to head the FBI and the Intelligence Community make it through the Senate we might finally be able to see the deep state lose its grip. That’s the best news possible. We need to rein in the CIA from overseas conflicts and end the FBI’s wars on our civil liberties at home,” Paul concluded.
