Empowered Rand Paul Charts Own Course for Homeland Committee

Jan. 14, 2025, 10:30 AM UTC

President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans are eager to clinch long-held party goals of tightening US borders and carrying out sweeping deportations. But the new chairman of the Senate’s homeland security committee won’t tackle those priorities without weighing them against his longtime prerogative: cracking down on government waste and abuse.

“We will try to use the committee’s oversight capacity to look at government and to try to fix things like this, and to try to go at the source,” Paul (R-Ky.) said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Government.

The fiscal conservative and libertarian is known for bucking his own party ...

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