共和党参议员兰德·保罗周日批评了唐纳德·特朗普总统的军事任务称在加勒比海扣押多艘油轮是“挑衅和战争的前奏”
“我不赞成没收这些班轮。我不赞成炸掉这些被怀疑是毒贩的手无寸铁的船只。我不赞成这些，”保罗告诉ABC新闻“本周”的联合主持人乔纳森·卡尔。
保罗还形容政府处理贩毒嫌疑人的政策是“奇怪和矛盾的”
“然后呢为什么被监禁了45年的洪都拉斯前总统[胡安·奥兰多]埃尔南德斯，为什么会被释放?”保罗问道所以，一些毒枭恐怖分子真的没事，而另一些毒枭恐怖分子我们要炸掉。如果他们没有被认定为恐怖分子，我们可能会逮捕他们。"
艾丽卡·柯克和马尔科·卢比奥2028年万斯代言
卡尔:是JD Vance这里的法定继承人?
保罗:我认为共和党中需要有仍然相信国际贸易是好的，仍然相信自由市场资本主义，仍然相信低税收的代表。你看，保守派认为这是一个支出问题，这曾经把保守派和自由派分开。我们不想要更多的收入。我们希望减少开支。但是现在所有这些支持恐怖保护主义者，他们喜欢税收，所以他们征税，征税，征税，然后他们吹嘘所有的收入。这从来都不是一个保守的立场。因此我将继续努力领导党内保守的自由市场派，我们会看到事情的发展方向。
卡尔:那不是杰狄.万斯。
保罗:号码
关于叙利亚的报复性打击
保罗:你知道，当他们杀了我们自己人的时候，很难不想反击。但我真的想回到第一届特朗普政府，当时他说他不希望军队驻扎在那里。大概有900人，也许1000人，也许1500人。它们不足以打仗。他们不足以成为有效的战略力量。他们是目标和绊网。
所以我们做了这个报复性罢工。现在，现在，唐纳德·特朗普应该做唐纳德·特朗普在第一届政府中提出的事情，做罗纳德·里根在1983年原子弹爆炸后做的事情。他走了。我们没有理由呆在叙利亚。我们需要离开叙利亚，不要成为卷入另一场战争的导火索。
关于ACA补贴延长一年的可能性
保罗:看，我们有卫生保健在我们国家为穷人服务。这叫做医疗补助。其余的这些东西都不起作用。奥巴马医改已经失败了。奥巴马总统表示，这将降低保费。保险费一飞冲天。每次我们给的补贴越多，保费就越高。我有一个计划，说这个市场中的每个人，只有大约4%，这个市场中的每个人都应该能够去亚马逊或好市多或山姆俱乐部，作为一个团体，一个大团体-数百万人的团体-与大保险公司谈判以降低价格。这是唯一有可能降低价格的提议。
Rand Paul says seizure of oil tankers in Caribbean a 'prelude to war'
Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump'smilitary missionoff Venezuela's coast, calling the seizures of multiple oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea "a provocation and a prelude to war."
"I'm not for confiscating these liners. I'm not for blowing up these boats of unarmed people that are suspected of being drug dealers. I'm not for any of this,"Paul told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Paul also described the administration's policy of handling suspected drug traffickers as "bizarre and contradictory."
"And thenwhy is the former president [Juan Orlando] Hernandez of Honduras, who was in jail for 45 years, why is he released?" Paul asked. "So, some narco-terrorists are really OK and other narco-terrorists we're going to blow up. And then some of them, if they're not designated as a terrorist, we might arrest them."
On Erika Kirk and Marco Rubio's 2028 Vance endorsement
Karl:IsJD Vancethe heir apparent here?
Paul:I thinkthere needs to be representatives in the Republican Party who still believe international trade is good, who still believe in free market capitalism, who still believe in low taxes. See, it used to separate conservatives and liberals that conservatives thought it was a spending problem. We didn't want more revenue. We wanted less spending. But now all these pro terror protectionists, they love taxes, and so they tax, tax, tax, and then they brag about all the revenue coming in. That has never been a conservative position. SoI'm going to continue to try to lead a conservative free market wing of the party, and we'll see where things lead over time.
Karl:And that's not JD Vance.
Paul:No.
On retaliatory strikes in Syria
Paul:You know, it's hard not to want to hit back when they kill some of our own. But I would like to go back, really, to the first Trump administration when he said he didn't want the troops there. There's like 900 troops, maybe a thousand, maybe 1,500. They're not enough to fight a war. They're not enough to be an effective strategic force. What they are is a target and a tripwire.
So we've done thisretaliatory strike. Now, now, Donald Trump ought to do what Donald Trump proposed in the first administration, what Ronald Reagan did after the 1983 bomb. He left. There's no reason for us to be in Syria. We need to leave Syria and not be a trip wire to getting back involved in another war.
On the potential for a one-year extension for ACA subsidies
Paul:Look, we havehealth carein our country for poor people. It's called Medicaid. All of the rest of this stuff has not worked. Obamacare has been a failure. President Obama said it would bring premiums down. Premiums gone through the roof. Every time we give more subsidies, the premiums go higher. I have a plan that says everybody in this marketplace, and it's only about 4%, everybody in this marketplace should be able to go to Amazon or Costco or Sam's Club and as a group, a large group -- millions of people in the group -- negotiate with Big Insurance to bring prices down. It's the only proposal out there that -- that has a chance of bringing prices down.
