Sen Ron Johnson, R-Vis., Thursday, is seen at the US Capital during a series of votes on 3 April, 2025.
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Sen Ron Johnson On Sunday, he said that he feels that he has enough GOP partners on the board with opposition from the House “Big, beautiful bill“To prevent and change its progress.
Visconsin Republican’s comment further outlines the potentially difficult passage for a broader domestic policy package, which Just passed the house narrowly Last week.
As house speaker Mike Johnson Urges his Senate colleagues not to “medal” with the bill, the fiscal hooks in the Senate have indicated that they would not support the package in their current form.
“We have enough to stop this process until the President becomes serious about decrease and reducing losses,” Sen Johnson said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’.
Sen Johnson and some of his Senate colleagues have expressed concern that the house bill led to the sky touching Federal deficitOne criticism that speaker Johnson brushed on one side.
Sen Johnson said that the “first goal” of the budget reconciliation process should be to reduce the deficit, it actually increases it. ,
He has repeatedly stated that the federal government needs to return to “pre-political level expenses”.
Sen Rand PaulR-Ky., The cost of spending in the house bill on Sunday is also called “vampi and anemic”.
Paul said, “But I will still support the bill, even with vampi and anemic cut, if they were not going to explode in the debt,” Paul said on “Fox News Sunday”.
“The problem is that mathematics is not added, they are going to explode the debt,” they continued.
One Analysis Nonpartison Congress’s budget office has been told that the sweeping package may increase deficit $ 3.8 trillion in the next decade.