It said that if automatic spending cuts go into force and all the Bush-era tax cuts expire, the nation would slip into recession next year and unemployment would rise to 9.1 percent, from October's rate of 7.9 percent.
Paul has made his longtime opposition to the NSA's surveillance dragnet a key tenet of his 2016 campaign and followed through on his pledge to let the Patriot Act expire – although he voted against the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, arguing that it does not go far enough.
Did the entire Patriot Act expire on Sunday night?
The former Labor government supported and extended the program but funding was due to expire at the end of 2014.
The issue is urgent because a key provision of the Patriot Act, the piece of the law that enables the NSA to sweep millions of Americans' phone records without a warrant, is due to expire on 1 June.
Benefits for the long-term unemployed, which were about to expire for an estimated two million jobless Americans, will be extended for a year.
Slovakia, whose Miroslav Lajčák was the only EU foreign minister besides Cyprus's to visit Moscow since the annexation of Crimea, said it expected to sign an oil-supply treaty with Russia this month that would expire in 2029.
Transitional arrangements restricting the rights of 29 million Bulgarian and Romanian citizens from living and working in the UK will expire in January 2014.
If the Senate does nothing, the controversial provisions of the Patriot Act opposed by the Kentucky expire automatically at the end of May.
In July, heads of state and government ministers will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss how to pay for the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire at the end of the year.
After three years, the freebies expire, but Merck promised to provide Rwanda with a discounted access price to the vaccine.
