The senate has voted against senator Rand Paul’s penny plan.
The Kentucky republican amendment was written to help prioritize funding for the commonwealth's critical infrastructure projects.
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Paul wanted to cut just one percent*from the federal government's non-infrastructure discretionary spending and direct that money to the projects.
Paul argued it would have provided over 12 billion dollars in new infrastructure spending for 2020.
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