The Kentucky Republican told reporters Wednesday that despite his plans to take his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson to an annual White House picnic for members of Congress Thursday, he had found himself unwelcome from the festivities.
Paul has been an outspoken critic against Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” and a strong opponent to raising the debt ceiling. He recently took Senator Lindsey Graham to task, arguing that the hawk only wanted to inflate the U.S. defense budget.
“I just find this incredibly petty. I mean, I have been, I think nothing but polite to the president. I have been an intellectual opponent, a public policy opponent, and he has chosen now to invite me from the picnic,” Paul said.
“They’ve decided they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the White House, and I just think it’s incredibly petty,” Paul said.
“Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White House Party tonight. He’s the toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate, but why wouldn’t he be?” Trump wrote. “Besides, it gives me more time to get his Vote on the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, one of the greatest and most important pieces of legislation ever put before our Senators & Congressmen/women.”
Paul said he wasn’t sure if the order had come from Trump himself or from staffers, who he alleged had been waging a paid influencer campaign against him. Paul even took a shot at White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect behind the president’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
“So, I think what it tells is they don’t like hearing me say stuff like that, and so they want to quiet me down. And it hasn’t worked, and so they’re going to try to attack me. They’re going to try to destroy me in other ways. And then do petty little things like social occasions or whatever,” he added.
Paul told reporters he’d received no explanation for the decision. “We’re just not welcome,” he said.
This piece has been updated.
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