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| https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-icymi-why-are-us-taxpayers-paying-pakistani-kids-go-space-camp-and-dollywood-asks-dr-rand-paul/ | ICYMI: Why are U.S. Taxpayers Paying for Pakistani Kids to go to Space Camp and Dollywood? asks Dr. Rand Paul | 2018-07-16 | 2018 | 2018-07 | Republican | Senate | KY | Rand Paul | P000603 | www.paul.senate.gov | paul | https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/ | scraper | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 16, 2018 Contact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), sat down with Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Kristine Frazao to discuss the U.S. State Department spending $250,000 of taxpayer funds to send 24 Pakistani kids on a trip to the U.S. that included multiple days at Space Camp and stops at Dollywood and Washington, D.C. “I think we have so many problems here at home that we need to address before we think about spending money on somebody else’s kids,” Dr. Paul stated in his interview. You can learn more and watch Dr. Paul’s segment HERE. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-06-27T23:02:18Z |