“Maybe these new free money Republicans should join the everybody-gets-a-guaranteed-income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody? Why not $30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it?” he asked. “The treasury can just keep printing the money. That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value,” Paul continued. “To s0 called conservatives who are quick to call out the socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better. When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity,” he said, assessing that the difference between parties is “less Adam Smith versus Marx and more Marx versus Engels.”

For some countries, Christmas came early:

• $169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).
• Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).
• $198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).
• $130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).
• Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).
• Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).
• $505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).
• $461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).
• $74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).
• $33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).
• Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).
• $132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).
• $453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).

The Kentucky Republican further explained the country’s fiscal situation, noting the nation brought in $3.3 trillion last year and spent $6.6 trillion. The deficit was a “record-busting $3.3 trillion,” he said, explaining there is no more coronavirus bailout money and that such extraordinary spending habits have been “going on for decades.”

“TODAY’S MONEY IS GONE, SO CONGRESS IS SPENDING TOMORROW’S MONEY,” HE SAID, NOTING THAT THE COUNTRY FINDS ITSELF $27 TRILLION IN DEBT TODAY WITH NO CUTS, OFFSETS, OR PRIORITIZATION IN CONGRESS.