Yet Sen. Paul had no problem voting "yea" for the 2017 "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" that handed $1.5 trillion in permanent tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.
He helped blow a one trillion-dollar hole in the debt that now appears to concern him so much.
New York Sen., 2020 presidential candidate, and the bill's sponsor,Kirsten Gillibrand, took to the Senate floor to lambast Sen. Paul:
"Enough of the political games. Our 9/11 first responders and the entire nation are watching to see if this body actually cares. Do we care about the men and women who answered the call of duty?"
At a press conference Wednesday, Gillibrand reminded Majority Leader McConnell about what he said regarding "never forgetting" by holding a vote on the bill next Thursday.
She said:
"Sen. McConnell, I call upon you now to keep the commitment that you made to these brave men and women. I urge you to do the right thing by putting the House bill on the floor where it will pass so we can finally let these men and women have peace."
Actor and comedian Jon Stewart, who appeared before a House subcommittee panel on June 11 to lobby for the first-responder bill, appeared on Fox News with 9/11 first responder John Feal, who called Paul and Utah Sen. Mike Lee "opportunists" and "bottom-feeders."
He added:
"You can't cherry-pick and choose when you want to be a conservative fiscal hawk; that's just insulting to our intelligence. And shame on them. They lack humanity, they lack leadership."
The following day on CNN's "New Day" Feal exclaimed:
"You know, yesterday Jon Stewart said we had to beg. We're not begging; we're demanding. We don't beg for anything anymore. They work for us and they should be begging for forgiveness for being a**holes for the last 15 years."
Stewart characterized Paul's maneuver "an abomination," adding:
"Pardon me if I'm not impressed in any way by Rand Paul's fiscal responsibility virtue signaling."
Sen. Paul, though, is doubling-down.
He called Jon Stewart a member of the "left-wing mob," trashing him to Fox News' Neil Cavuto:
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