Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Thursday that legislators should focus on reducing the federal budget to “a pre-pandemic level,” adding that the domestic policy package under consideration in Congress must “justify why we’re spending so much.”
House Republicans last week passed a wide-ranging domestic policy bill that, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, would raise the national debt by $3.3 trillion.
Johnson has become one of the Senate’s leading Republican voices against the bill, warning on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “The first goal of our budget reconciliation process should be to reduce the deficit. This actually increases it.”
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