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Johnson Changes Budget Vote to 'YES'
Wisconsin’s Republican US Senate continues to say the big, beautiful bill adds too much to the deficit, but Senator Ron Johnson says he got a promise from the president that changed his mind and his vote.
Johnson told News Talk 1130 WISN’s Jay Weber Monday that he changed his No vote to a Yes on Saturday night after sitting down with President Trump.
“Really, you know, he convinced me that he is committed to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending and a process to achieve and maintain it,” Johnson explained. “And that's been my demand all along.”
Johnson said the president promised to look at the federal budget, line-by-line, and really look at places where the government can spend less, or spend smarter.
“This is not a one-and-done bill. For sure we have to do at least one more if not two more reconciliations. And again, there's a game plan here of restraining federal spending,” Johnson said. “This is the bottom line This is not easy what we're trying to do.”
Johnson has been clear with his opposition to the reconciliation package because it adds to the federal debt.
Johnson has said for months that Republicans in Congress have an “opportunity” to reign-in federal spending.
On Monday, he said, there are some Republicans who don’t seem to want to do that.
“I was certainly holding out for more spending reductions. To get closer to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending,” Johnson said “What I wanted our conference to do is, literally go through this bill once we got a score, provision-by-provision, score-by-score and vote on what should remain in, what should remain out. And you know, the conference just refused to do that.”
Johnson isn’t saying when he hopes to get that line-by-line review of federal spending.
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