Trump: ‘Of Course’ Rand Paul Still Invited to Congressional Picnic

President 👤Donald Trump set the record straight on Thursday by saying “of course” Sen. 👤Rand Paul(R-Ky.) was invited to the 🧺Congressional Picnic at the White House Thursday night.

Rand claimed he and his family were “uninvited” from the annual event.

The IJR previously reported on Paul’s account of the situation.

“I’ve just been told that I’ve been uninvited from the picnic; I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic,” Paul said Wednesday. “The White House is owned by the taxpayers, we are all members of it, every Democrat will be invited, every Republican will be invited, but I will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the White House.”

“I just find this incredibly petty,” he continued. “I have been, I think nothing but polite to the president. I have been an intellectual opponent, a public policy opponent, and he’s chosen now to uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can’t come to the picnic.”

But Trump took to social media to explain that was not the case. Trump needs Paul to side with him on his tax cut and spending package.

“He’s the toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate, but why wouldn’t he be? 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,” Trump wrote on X.