Rand Paul stalls Senate passage of $40 billion in Ukraine aid
www.cbsnews.com
His objection to immediate passage of the bill will delay it until next week.

This is a weird ass thing to flex on since it is everything libs and neocons want, so what's his angle exactly? Could he singlehandedly stop the Ukraine funding and bring an end to this war?

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    ELI5 how one senator can be the "lone holdout" on a vote? Doesn't he need like 40 other senators to do anything?

    • sin_eater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Well there's the fillibuster for one, not that this is a fillibuster and not that the current rules make a mockery of the actual tactic. But that is one way for a lone holdout to gum up the works and Rand is using some other rule that will buy them another week to make the package bigger or some other dumb shit.

      And there are many rules like this. The rules that govern that body are so arcane that the only way anything happens is if it is preordained to happen. This is how you know that when the Women's Health Protection Act (codifying Roe v. Wade) went up for a vote and failed to pass 49-51, you know that is the result that both Democrats and Republicans truly and actually wanted.