Rand Paul begs Biden for federal aid to Kentucky tornado victims -- after a career of voting 'no

Rand Paul on Fox News (screengrab).

Representative Rand Paul of Kentucky ran off a letter to President Joe Biden today arguing for speedy government alleviation help to survivors of a dangerous 200-mile cyclone that struck his state Friday.

That was obviously the option to do. Yet, Paul is
A peculiar one to have done it.

All through his two terms in the U.S. Senate, Paul hosts prided himself as a Tea Gathering financial moderate able to deny the most milquetoast causes assuming government spending is involved. Restricting government fiasco alleviation is one of his side interests.

In 2017, Paul was one of only 17 legislators to go against a crisis $15.3 billion government help bill for casualties of Hurricane Harvey. It had unleashed ruin like Friday's twister, yet all the same not in Kentucky.
In 2013, Paul was one of 31 Republican representatives who casted a ballot against a $50.5 billion help bundle for Hurricane Sandy – "after already debacle help for their home states," as detailed by ThinkProgress.org.

In 2011, Paul's first year in the Senate, he was among 38 Republicans casting a ballot against a significant FEMA subsidizing bundle notwithstanding the reality – not lost upon publicintegrity.org – that his own province of Kentucky had been the country's biggest beneficiary of FEMA financing ($293 million), for the most part due to a 2009 ice storm.

After 10 years, Paul kept in touch with Biden like the two were old liberal prodigal companions.

"The previous evening and early earlier today destroying storms cleared across different states, including Kentucky. A solitary twister from that framework might have been on the ground for north of 200 miles, and an enormous area of the Commonwealth has been seriously hit.

"As the sun comes up toward the beginning of today we will start to comprehend the genuine extent of the
Obliteration, yet we definitely know about death toll and extreme property harm.

"The legislative leader of the Commonwealth has mentioned government help today, and surely further demands will be coming as the circumstance is surveyed. I completely support those solicitations and ask that you move quickly to endorse the suitable assets for our state."

Paul's parsimony with government help to individuals outside of Kentucky has scarcely been restricted to help reacting to actual calamities.

In the absolute first Covid Senate help bundle - - - - a simple $8 billion passed on March 5, 2020 – Paul stood apart as the solitary Senator to cast a ballot no.

His grievance: Congress never cuts other spending as the immediate offset he demands having for government help not reserved for Kentucky:

"This isn't whenever we've first had crisis cash," Paul whined after the principal COVID 19 spending passed. "This is likely the
10th time we've done crisis cash in the beyond a few years. So everything is a crisis."