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Senator Rand Paul once again reminded Americans on Tuesday that nation building and the desire for global peace has proven to be a disaster for America's infrastructureand fiscal house.

During a hearing on CapitolHill, Paul questioned leaders behind the stabilizationefforts in the MiddleEast, asking why the American taxpayer should be forcedto spend trillions on the livelihoodof people thousands of miles away whom they've never met.

Weve spent a lot of money over there, Paul said. Theyre not a destitute country. They have oil, and by-golly they aught to rebuild their own country. We can be of some help stabilizing things, but it isnt our responsibility to rebuild everybodys country.

Paul then vouched for his own constituents in Kentucky.

Look, Ive got a bridge thats 50 years old in my state Id like to replace, he said. Weve built and bombed so many bridges around the world we dont have any money left for ourselves.

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Rand Paul: GOP Must Deliver 'Complete Repeal' of ACA LifeZette Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) urged congressional Republicans to deliver a complete repeal of Obamacare, root and branch, during an interview Monday on The Laura Ingraham Show. Paul, a former 2016 Republican presidential candidate, addressed the ... Sen. Rand Paul Encourages ACA RepealWKMS Exclusive: Leaked GOP Obamacare replacement shrinks subsidies, Medicaid expansionPolitico all 1,233 news articles »

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With the weight of the world quite literally resting on his shoulders, President Trump still manages to carve hours out of his schedule to watch TV. Most of those hours, Bloomberg reported Thursday, are devoted to Fox News:

Long a voracious consumer of cable news, Trump has cut back how much he watches CNN and MSNBC in recent weeks, having sworn off the latter network's Morning Joe after criticism from its hosts, according to a senior White House aide privy to the president's viewing habits.

Instead, the president now spends hours some mornings watching Fox News, switching occasionally to CNBC for business headlines, along with a daily diet of newspapers and press clippings, said the official, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. On the evenings when he doesn't have a dinner or briefing, Trump will spend most of his TV-viewing time watching Fox News shows hosted by Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, the aide said. [Bloomberg]

Trump's loyal viewership is already giving advertisers some ideas. Trump has been known to repeat often verbatim what he hears on cable news, and the public's increased interest in politics in the age of Trump has already given networks' ratings a healthy boost. "If you're a lobbying outfit, buying commercials on Fox News may be as effective as campaign donations to the right member of Congress," said Mark Feldstein, a broadcast journalism professor at the University of Maryland.

But what's good for advertisers isn't necessarily good for the president. "On one hand, it's always good for a president to have independent sources of information from the hermetically sealed bubble that exists in the White House," Feldstein said. But to the extent that he's getting news from cable television, which isn't the most reliable source of information, he's getting pretty distorted information."

Read more about Trump's love of Fox News over at Bloomberg. Becca Stanek

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Sen. Rand Paul on Obamacare: 'Conservatives Will Be Listened to or There Won't Be a Repeal' CNSNews.com Paul spoke hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan said Republicans "have an obligation" to step in front of the collapsing Obamacare law and "replace it with a better system. But Ryan's better system and President Donald Trump's -- includes tax ... Rand Paul: Conservatives Have The Votes To Kill 'Obamacare-Lite'Daily Caller Congressional GOP Leadership's Obamacare Partial Repeal Plan in TroubleRand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee Band ...Breitbart News Rand Paul: GOP Must Deliver 'Complete Repeal' of ACALifeZette Rare.us -Politico all 930 news articles »

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"Conservatives will be listened to or there won't be a repeal," Paul said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. "We're not just going along with whatever they try to shove down our throats. We're going to be a big part of this."

He criticized a leaked draft of a GOP Obamacare replacement plan to rework the Affordable Care Act's subsidies into refundable tax credits.

"Refundable tax credits, this means you get back money you didn't pay. Somebody else's money," Paul said. "So I don't think we can dress up Democrat ideas and put a Republican stamp on them, call them a tax credit and say that we're giving them something different than what Obamacare was doing."

He said that Republicans "shouldn't dress up a new government entitlement program" as a policy shift.

"What we should be for is lowering insurance premiums, lowering the rates and letting working class people get good insurance at a less expensive cost," he said. "We are bankrupt as a country because we're overextended already on the entitlement programs that we have without adding new ones."

House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) and House Republican Study Committee Chair Mark Walker (R-SC) said they would have trouble voting for a bill resembling the recently leaked draft.

Sens. Paul, Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) signaled their support for Meadows and Walker in tweets posted Monday night, and two outside conservative groups, Club for Growth and FreedomWorks, announced their support as well on Tuesday.

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