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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., weighed in on the White House's request to Congress for $10 billion in aid to Ukraine, saying he's not opposed to selling weapons to Ukraine, but the U.S. should be careful about giving weapons away and expanding on national debt, which would threaten national security.

On Thursday, the Biden administration requested at least $10 billion in new money to provide aid to Ukraine amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against the nation, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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Paul responded to the White House's ask, saying he's "not opposed" to selling weapons to assist Ukraine, but he's "opposed" to giving away weapons and expanding upon the United States' trillions of dollars in debt, which would "threaten our own national security."

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Im not opposed to selling defensive weapons to Ukraine. I am opposed to giving away weapons or money to buy weapons as I believe that we should not expand our $30 trillion debt that threatens our own national security," Paul told Fox News Digital.

The Biden administration's request comes as Ukraine faces increasingly heavy bombings and missile attacks from Russia. Meanwhile, Russian warships are headed toward Odesa for what U.S. officials anticipate will be an amphibious assault beginning as soon as Thursday.

"As part of the agreement lawmakers are working to finalize ahead of the March 11thdeadline, were also urging Congress toinclude supplemental fundingfor two urgent and immediate needs: supporting Ukraine, and continuing our ongoing COVID response efforts," OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: U.S President Joe Biden gives remarks at a Black History Month celebration event in the East Room of the White House on February 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. The event was attended by members of President Bidens Cabinet, the Congressional Black Caucus, state and local elected officials, and Civil Rights and Faith based leaders. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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OMB also asked Congress for $22.5 billion in coronavirus-related aid. That money will go toward treatments, vaccines and virus tests.

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Tonight, you heard a speech by someone who doesnt know whats going on in the union, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday night. Or at least he is hoping you dont know.

President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address Tuesday, but it was Paul who provided the real State of the Union. Whereas Biden spent much of the night vilifying Russian President Vladimir Putin and the crisis in Ukraine, it was Paul who put the focus back on the plight of the American people. When Biden did get around to addressing the United States, he described an alternate reality, ignoring the harsh conditions that have inundated the country during his presidency.

Whats the state of the union? Russias invasion of Ukraine has led to the worst crisis in Europe since World War II. Massive inflation is everywhere, the likes of which we havent seen since the malaise of Jimmy Carter, Paul said. Parents are frustrated from almost two years of bureaucrats messing with their kids schooling. Everyday Americans seeing their freedom, jobs, and livelihoods stolen from them by petty tyrants drunk on power with lockdowns and mandates.

Paul eviscerated Biden for all of his policy failures from his first year in office. The state of the union is frankly pretty poor, and Americans are largely unhappy with Bidens performance, Paul said emphatically.

Statistics show that he is right. Biden is polling at horrifically low levels. Inflation is decimating households, approaching the highest levels ever recorded. Then, Paul highlighted concerns over our countrys soaring national debt. Paul also addressed supply chain shortages and skyrocketing food prices that have left peoples bank accounts and refrigerators emptier than in recent years. The nirvana that Biden presented in his speech isnt based in any reality.

Of course, thats if you can even get the food. Supply chain issues from our COVID policies have continued to bring empty shelves and late deliveries of just about every item in our economy, Paul said. From meat to used cars, from raw materials to boatloads of goods, the delays are ongoing.

Paul has been a crusader against overturning the countrys mask mandates. Frequently, he has claimed they were nothing more than tyrannical theatrics a claim that has new currency now that mask mandates were suddenly dropped in the Capitol just in time for Bidens State of the Union. Suffice to say, that is quite the coincidence.

Furthermore, whereas Biden kept fibbing about his utopia, Paul addressed the reality of COVID-19 restrictions put into effect by Democrats throughout the country. Our two years of lockdowns, ballooning national debt, and out-of-control inflation threaten our national security, Paul said. Congress added trillions of dollars in new debt to pay people to stay home from the lockdowns that Congress mandated.

Paul also tackled the social justice topics of the moment.

Parents are being told theyre not in charge of their kids education, then watching as critical race theory and extreme gender issues are brought into their small childrens classrooms thats if their kids are even meeting in person in a classroom at all, he said.

Biden and his followers want you to believe theyre following the science, but it looks more like political science to many of us," he continued. "There have been many casualties of the Biden policies so far: science, freedom, prosperity, strength in the world."

But it wasnt just Biden whom Paul criticized. He appropriately went after the presidents enablers in Congress.

Democrats in Congress who clapped and cheered tonight bear much of the blame as well, he said. They passed the spending bills and enabled the appointees who have made this mess.

Most importantly, unlike the false realities created in Bidens speech, Paul was able to end on an optimistic path and provide guidance on how the country can recover from Bidens first year in office.

Thankfully, one thing I can say without flinching about Americans is that the state of our union can and will bounce back, he said. We can get our spending under control. We can retake our freedom. We can stop the left from taking over our schools, and we can fix our foreign policy again. ... It starts now. Parents are fighting back. People are listening to other voices with real science on their side. And men and women are running for office to take back Congress. Next year, I am hopeful the message will be better, our outlook brighter. For now, keep fighting and hoping, and our best days can and will be in our future.

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Editor's note: this story details historic violence thatsome may find upsetting.

Marie Thompson was sentenced to death in 1904 for the crime of resisting the tyranny of Jim Crow. She was not afforded an opportunity to defend herself in a court of law, nor was her constitutional right to due process recognized. Her sentence was not imposed by an impartial judge, but rather by a bloodthirsty mob.

When a white farmer, John Irving, verbally and physically assaulted Marie Thompsons son, who Irving accused of stealing a pair of pliers, she came to her childs defense. Irving attacked Marie with a knife while her back was turned to him. The fight ended when Marie Thompson slit John Irvings throat.

But the ordeal wasnt over. Marie Thompson was arrested and, if she had lived in a different time, she would have been found to have justifiably acted in self-defense. But this was 1904, a time when even a prison could not hold back the lynch mob.

When dozens of armed men dragged Marie Thompson from her cell and tied a rope around her neck, she still did not lose the will to fight. Ignoring her cries for mercy, the men threw the rope over the branch of a tree and Thompsons feet were lifted several inches off the ground. But Marie Thompson managed to steal a knife from a member of the mob, cut herself down, and began running for her life. Over 100 bullets flew at her and, when she fell, the mob cheered.

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This was how a dispute over a pair of pliers was resolved in the Jim Crow south.

Marie Thompson was a human being, but she was not afforded the dignity that each individual deserves. She was a Black American woman, who lost her life resisting injustice. And, throughout my engagement with my colleagues in the Senate to make lynching a federal crime, Marie Thompson has been an inspiration to me.

When Congress passes the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, the heinous act of lynching will finally be recognized as a federal hate crime. I am a proud co-sponsor of that legislation, and all Americans should celebrate its imminent passage. But, we should also celebrate the process by which this legislation was crafted because I believe it will inspire renewed faith in our experiment in Republican government.

Officially designating lynching a federal crime is a powerful statement. But, when Congress creates new federal crimes, it has a responsibility to ensure that the law is just.

That is exactly what I attempted to do when, over a year ago, I offered an amendment to strengthen an earlier version of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. That version of the bill would have labeled a conspiracy to commit a vast array of different hate crimes, including those unrelated to physical harm to a personsuch as defacing a churcha lynching.

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At the same time, protests across the United States were erupting to protest the killing of George Floyd. That summer, protestors calling for racial justice defaced St. Johns Church in Washington, DC. Ironically, had that version of the antilynching bill become law, those protestors could have been the first to have been federally prosecuted for committing a lynching.

That real-life example demonstrates why Congress must carefully craft legislation that creates new federal crimes. My amendment, which I named in honor of Marie Thompson, would have ensured that the crime of lynching would be severely punished, while those accused of lesser crimes are punished in a proportionate manner.

Taking the time to get the bill right was, for some, an unpopular decision. Consideration of my amendment would inevitably slow the process of enacting the law, and some people, who were not inclined to give me the benefit of the doubt, hurled vile accusations at me on social media.

Sen.Cory Booker recognized my sincerity and agreed to work with me to make the bill stronger. Sen.Booker and I have collaborated to fight other injustices, such as mass incarceration. Our partnership worked because of a profound mutual respect for one another and a shared goal to right historic wrongs without inadvertently creating new victims.

All too often, news coverage portrays our nation as hopelessly divided and our government as broken. The intense debates, the contentious votes, and the partisan signing ceremonies may get the most attention from news organizations. But what the cameras cannot capture is the careful deliberation and cooperation that is required of public servants to faithfully fulfill their charge.

And so, a Republican and a Democrat from different backgrounds, different parts of the country, and different perspectives, sat down and did the hard work entrusted to us by our constituents. Our exchange of ideas was at times passionate, but always respectful and with our common goal sharply in mind. In short, we came up with a compromise. That compromise took over a year to finalize. But the result of that compromise will be a historic law that finally recognizes lynching as a federal hate crime.

We owed it to Marie Thompson, to Emmett Till, and to the over 4,700 other victims of lynching in this country to get the law that honors them right.

Rand Paul is a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky.

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif., March 3, 2022 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/-- Just over 40 years ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, saying, "These bills that I'm about to signrepresent a turnaround of almost a half a century of a course this country's been on and mark an end to the excessive growth in government bureaucracy, government spending, government taxing."

As our nation faces the highest rates of inflation since the early 1980s, it is clear that it is essential to understand how leaders in the past have responded to these sorts of challenges. To ensure that the youth of today continue to be taught the important economic lessons President Reagan fought so hard to instill in our nation, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is launching "Reaganomics 101," a brand-new set of primary source based materials for classrooms across our nation.

"It's critical that we emphasize the value of free markets and capitalism in our nation's schools. Our 'Reaganomics 101' course is meant to do just that." said John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute. "Just this month, the U.S. inflation rate hit a 40-year high of 7.5%[1]. It is absolutely essential that young people understand how Ronald Reagan's economic policies helped combat inflation and set the U.S. on a course for decades long prosperity."

Through the use of primary source material gathered from the Reagan Library archives, contemporary interviews with leading economists and free market proponents, animated videos and more, the Reagan Foundation & Institute aims to reintroduce the teaching of economic principles that allowed President Reagan to successfully revive the worst economic mess since the Great Depression.

"When President Reagan took office in1981, the country was experiencing some of the bleakest economic times on record," said Heubusch "By the end of his presidency, Ronald Reagan and his administration helped millions of people get good jobs and to keep more of the money for which they worked so hard, the federal government was on a much-needed diet, and businesses were no longer hassled or paralyzed by the government. In a phrase the American dream had been restored."

The curriculum, which will be available in the months to come on http://www.ReaganFoundation.org/education, aims to tell the story of how Ronald Reagan's embrace of "supply side" economic policies led to historic tax rate reductions which, in turn, unleashed at the time the longest peace time economic recovery in our nation's history.

In addition to the primary source materials from the Reagan Archives which focuses on the four pillars President Reagan introduced during his economic policy plan reducing corporate and individual taxes, reducing government spending, reducing regulation, and tightening the money supply to reduce inflation - the curriculum includes recent interviews with economist Dr. Art Laffer, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senator Rand Paul, and others.

"Young people are succumbing to the notion that socialism is a good idea, and I think Ronald Reagan, if he were alive, would shudder at the thought," said Senator Rand Paul. "I wonder what the people running as socialists today missed in history classWe really want to make sure that the word gets out that the reason why America is so great is because of capitalism."

"What Ronald Reagan did," said former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, "was unleash the creativity of the American people, the workers, the small businessesthat really showed the power of freedom economics, which is free enterprise."

This curriculum launch is part of the milestone events the Reagan Foundation will be celebrating during this unprecedented 40th anniversary milestone year of Ronald Reagan becoming the 40th president of the United States. It's a year to re-examine his legacy, re-tell one of America's greatest stories, re-live a remarkable presidency, and introduce this American icon to a new generation. This is 40 at 40; the 40th anniversary of our 40th president's inaugural year. Learn more at http://www.reaganfoundation.org/40at40 and follow #40at40 on Twitter where the Reagan Foundation is posting once a day to relive what President Reagan did 40 years ago that day.

The Reaganomics 101 Education Curriculum program is funded by The Copses Family Foundation, a private foundation established by Peter P. Copses and Judith V. Mueller to promote, among other causes,economic liberty and freemarketcapitalism. Additional support for the program was also provided by Gary Simons and Andy Puzder.

"The CopsesFamilyFoundation is proud to have sponsored the creation of Reaganomics 101," said Peter P. Copses. "President Reagan was the foremost promoter of free market capitalism in my lifetime, and his policies unleashed decades of prosperity for America. Unfortunately, we are now turning away from these successful policies, and younger generations of Americans are being taught a very negative view of capitalism and markets that is historically inaccurate.We hope that Reaganomics 101 will help to correct this perception andcontributeto preserving prosperity for our children's generation."

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is the nonprofit organization created by President Reagan himself and specifically charged by him with continuing his legacy and sharing his principles - individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy and national pride. The Foundation is a non-partisan organization which sustains the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, the Reagan Center for Public Affairs, the Presidential Learning Center, The Air Force One Pavilion and the award-winning Discovery Center, as well as the Reagan Institute, which carries out the Foundation's work in Washington, D.C.

The Reagan Library houses over 60 million pages of Gubernatorial, Presidential and personal papers, over 1.6 million photographs, a half million feet of motion picture film, 25,000 audio recordings, 22,000 video recordings, and over 83,000 objects chronicling the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. It also serves as the final resting place of America's 40th President and his First Lady. http://www.reaganfoundation.org

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