Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds

Republicans should not immediately capitulate and agree to throw more taxpayer money at a failed government program. Consumers have the power to improve the cost and quality of health care in America. The cost of Obamacare has become so burdensome that families making...

Making war with the Kremlin is not an 'America First' strategy In the final days before Christmas, the Washington establishment tried to check off an item on its Christmas wish list: Make it easier for America to go to war with Russia. It hoped to accomplish this by...

MAHA initiative takes on Big Pharma, food additives and vaccine schedules with Trump administration backing Recently, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert...

Is life worse today than it was 50 years ago? According to a Pew Research survey, 58 percent of respondents believe it is. Perhaps watching the doom and gloom of the nightly news gives the impression that times have never been worse. But the facts show otherwise. The...

The truth is that tariffs are taxes. They don’t punish foreign governments; they punish American families If you think eggs are expensive, just wait until the new tariffs hit cars. Goldman Sachs estimates tariffs on imported vehicles could raise prices by $5,000...

If Lindsey Graham's bill were to pass, it would cause an economic calamity on a scale never before seen in our country While tariffs make wars more likely, embargoes make wars difficult to avoid. Senator Lindsey Graham’s Sanctioning Russia Act calls for 500%...

The White House is ending the unconstitutional program. Now, the public deserves to know why it ever existed. Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the end of the Transportation Security Agency’s Quiet Skies surveillance program. This is...

The Antisemitism Awareness Act threatens the First Amendment by empowering federal bureaucrats to police political and religious expression. The perpetrators of antisemitic violence and murder, which I abhor and condemn, should be punished to the maximum extent of the...

Remember when repealing Obamacare was the battle cry of Republicans? Who can forget the image of a terminally ill John McCain slowly entering the Senate chamber late at night to give a thumbs down “no” vote to even “skinny” repeal of Obamacare. Fast forward nearly a...

During recent Senate consideration of the new spending and tax bill, I had one simple mission: Stop Congress from plunging this country deeper into debt. No earmarks. No handouts. No favors. No horse trading. I asked for something radical in...

The near-assassination of President Donald Trump was the result of numerous, completely preventable failures which nearly cost President Trump his life. There must be accountability for the United States Secret Service’s failure to protect the President and those...

For too long, the bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been lining their pockets through clandestine agreements with big corporations, getting cozy with the very entities they’re tasked with overseeing. Trust in our public institutions is...

The COVID-19 pandemic not only took countless lives but also exposed how deeply rooted politics had become inside the government bureaucracies tasked with protecting public health, corrupting their ability to make decisions based on facts,...

The Washington establishment is once again working overtime to undermine the best of President Trump’s restraint-oriented foreign policy instincts. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Congress is currently debating, includes three separate...

In mid-2024, as she grew increasingly critical of the Biden administration and increasingly involved with the Trump campaign, Tulsi Gabbard noticed changes as she went to the airport. She had more screening. Federal agents with dogs kept showing up for her...

The federal government has, for decades, behaved as though the fundamentals of basic budgeting don’t apply. But that’s hardly surprising considering that Congress has rewarded this poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars again and again. Bureaucrats have every incentive...

Over a decade ago, when announcing that I would file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s once-secret program to collect all Americans’ cell phone data, I said, “Our Founding Fathers objected to general warrants that allowed...

Federal rules and regulations cost the U.S. economy more than $3 trillion each year and dictate nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives — from the food they can eat to the types of cars they can drive.But while Americans can vote out their representatives...

The government is open! Republicans in Congress cheered themselves. All smiles as they clapped each other on the back. Democrat Obamacare subsidies for people making up to $600,000 had been thwarted. Amidst the glad-handing and laughter no Republicans, save the lone...

The proper time to end most wars is before they start. This is especially true of regime change wars, wars of choice or opportunity. It’s always the same playbook the hawks use for war — use some other, more popular pretext, while keeping their ultimate plans hidden...