As, always, one of Paul's main arguments for the military leaving Afghanistan is cost. Yesterday he mocked so-called fiscal conservatives for moving so enthusiastically to defund NPR, a move which might save the government $10 million dollars when we have spent upwards of a trillion in Afghanistan in the last decade.
There's a serious question of whether [defunding NPR] will even cut one
penny, but at the very least the fiscal conservatives are going to be
overwhelmingly in support of slashing NPR, go home and brag about how
they're such great fiscal conservatives! And the very most they might
save is $10 million. And that's their claim to fame for slashing the
budget. At the same time they won't consider for minute cutting a real
significant amount of money
In the end the House voted to defund NPR and rejected an immediate Afghanistan pullout. Video below.
