“His victory was, in large form, based on that he got a lot of federal money for his state,” Paul told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano. “Unlimited spending is sort of — you could call it moderate, or even liberal, to think that there’s an unlimited amount of money, even for good causes.” …

“If you’re a conservative Republican, the federal government will be involved in certain things. But when you spend money — particularly when you’re a trillion dollars in the hole, it shouldn’t be just this ‘gimme, gimme, gimme all my money’ without any considerations or strings,” Paul said. “It should be, yes, this is why it’s necessary, but this is also why I’ll cut spending somewhere else.”