Rand Paul propõe cortar cerca de 1/3 do défice orçamental projectado, num montante de 500 billiões (1/3 do défice anual) e, entre outros cortes - acabar com o Departamento de Energia, o de Transportes, quase todo o da Educação, etc. - propõe que sejam igualmente suspensos os programas de ajuda externa sob o racional que não faz sentido andar a pedir dinheiro emprestado aos chineses para o "transferir" para terceiros quando a crise da dívida é tão gigantesca que põe em causa a solvabilidade da própria América. Um excerto da entrevista:
BLITZER: What about the $2 billion or $3 billion that goes every year to Israel? Do you want to eliminate that as well?
PAUL: Well, I think what you have to do is you have to look. When you send foreign aid, you actually send quite a bit to Israel's enemies. Islamic nations around Israel get quite a bit of foreign aid, too.
BLITZER: Egypt gets almost the same amount?
PAUL: Almost the same amount, so really you have to ask yourself, are we funding an arms race on both sides? I have a lot of sympathy and respect for Israel as a democratic nation, as a, you know, a fountain of peace and a fountain of democracy within the Middle East.
But at the same time, I don't [believe in] funding both sides of the arms race, particularly when we have to borrow the money from China to send it to someone else. We just can't do it anymore. The debt is all consuming and it threatens our well being as a country.
BLITZER: All right, so just to be precise, end all foreign aid including the foreign aid to Israel as well. Is that right?
PAUL: Yes.
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