Update: We applaud Sen. Johnson’s concern over spending, but according to the latest information from Stephen Miller, he has been badly ill-informed. Go here for what Stephen Miller says is the correct information.
Original Story
The big, beautiful bill passed the House and is heading for the Senate where Sen. Ron Johnson says he has enough votes to stop the bill until President Trump gets serious about cuts in spending.
Ron Johnson wants deeper cuts, and has repeatedly called for a return to pre-pandemic spending levels.
“This is the weekend we honor the service and sacrifice of the finest among us,” Ron Johnson said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, referencing the Memorial Day holiday. He added: “I don’t think they served in sacrifice to leave our children completely mortgaged.”
He called for his fellow lawmakers to be “responsible,” contending the “first goal of our budget reconciliation process should be to reduce the deficit.”
They Can Stop the Process, Nothing Else
Asked how many of his fellow GOP senators he thinks share his concerns and would be willing to make major changes to the bill, Ron Johnson said “we have enough to stop the process.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) echoed his Senate colleague’s criticism, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that the spending cuts included in the House bill “are wimpy and anemic.”
He continued that he “still would support the bill even with wimpy and anemic cuts if they weren’t going to explode the debt.”
Other senators, like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), have expressed concerns about changes to Medicaid proposed in the bill.
Senators Graham and Cruz have also expressed concerns about the bill.
The GOP could be well on their way to losing the House next year. It depends on how bad it gets.
Democrats make it as hard as possible so they definitely lose the House. They couldn’t care less about Americans.
The only cuts to Medicaid are to illegal aliens and the able-bodied. They should be cut back to pre-Pandemic levels, but then the GOP would pssibly lose the House next year.
House Speaker Mike Johnson sets the record straight that the One Big Beautiful Bill only cut Medicaid for 1.4M illegal immigrants and 4.8M “able-bodied individuals” who are choosing not to work.
“We are NOT cutting Medicaid in this package. There’s a lot of misinformation out… pic.twitter.com/ZsHzFs7TLl
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Then Miller and Johnson should talk.
It is not debatable that the debt is very destructive and dangerous to our future.
Johnson speaks of the bottom line, that is, what the US deficit is projected to be with this bill in effect. Miller does not address that. Johnson knows there are great cuts in this bill. He does not need a list of that. Miller needs to justify why a swelling of the US deficit to $50 trillion is OK.
It’s not OK and Trump/GOP has a chance to end the Democrat party and they are blowing it. Behind the scenes the US is in deep trouble, nobody is buying our debt/bonds so we are going to have to have more “Quantitative Easing” or whatever cute name they call it.
This will cause massive inflation. BRICS is backing their currencies with gold and commodities….ours is backed with ink. Currency runs/lasts about 100 year cycle, the dollar is in year 112….it’s about to end. New boss same as the old boss.
The ‘status quo’ is being challenged…they do not like it…
Johnson is one of the FEW Senators who generally tries to do the right thing for America. I respect him. BUT THOSE JOINING HIM IN OPPOSITION to “THE BIG BLOATED (SPENDING) BILL” DEFINITELY DO NOT HAVE NOBLE REASONS FOR DOING SO. ONE OF THE MANY WORDS THAT DESCRIBE THEM IS >>>
I support Johnson. Trump wants more cuts in the bill, but prefers to get things going. The senate will not support big cuts. I am for forcing more cuts. Make them vote against more cuts.