Stephen Miller lashes out at Rand Paul over his objections to Trump tax bill

As President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" triggers arguments and faction fighting among the GOP, a key Trump aide is taking to X to lash out at one of the administration's biggest critics of the legislation from within the Republican Party.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been outspoken against the legislation ever since it passed the House, flagging that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has found it adds $2.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years and requires increasing the debt ceiling — something he declares is the "opposite of conservative."

On Wednesday, however, Miller took a swipe at his position, calling him irrational in response to a post in which Paul said, "While I oppose increasing the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, I enthusiastically support making the tax cuts permanent and could vote for the Big not-yet Beautiful Bill if the debt ceiling were voted on separately."

"With the post below, Rand just conceded he has no substantive objections to any provision in the bill — because he knows it’s a big tax cut combined with a big spending cut combined with permanent border security," wrote Miller. "His sole objection is that he wants to force Republicans and President Trump to make a deal with Schumer to raise the debt ceiling that he can then vote against. Of course, a deal with Schumer to raise the debt ceiling means a tax HIKE and a spending HIKE."

"So, his sole demand, is to take a course of action that equals more spending and more taxing and still of course extends the borrowing limit," Miller added.

Miller has also, like many other figures in the Trump administration and the House GOP caucus, been baselessly lashing out at the CBO, accusing its staff of partisan bias for finding the bill adds to the deficit and strips millions of people of health insurance.

"The only spending change in the bill is a giant spending cut," wrote Miller in a separate post. "The entire 'deficit' change per the lefty CBO was not expiring the Trump Tax Cut from 2017. Further, because it’s a (party-line) reconciliation bill, no monies are appropriated in the bill to fund government."