While speaking at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center on Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, says Rand Paul is only concerned about deficit when it’s convenient.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday slammed Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's single-handed effort to stop a budget deal and shut down the government last week.
"His idea of railing against the deficit on this bipartisan deal after he supported a $1.5 trillion deficit for tax cuts, 80 percent of which are aimed at the top one percent, is very hollow," Schumer said.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, was speaking at the University of Louisville as a guest of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Paul came up during a question- and-answer session.
McConnell, R-Kentucky, also opposed Paul's interjection.
Paul, a Republican, had objected to a deal that lifted strict budget caps and allowed politicians to spend an extra $300 billion over the next two years on defense and domestic programs.
The bill eventually passed, and Paul's objection triggered the shortest government shutdown ever, at roughly six hours, according to USA TODAY.
“We have Republicans hand-in-hand with Democrats offering us trillion-dollar deficits,” he said on the Senate floor. “I want people to feel uncomfortable" voting in favor of big deficits.
