Sen. Ron Johnson proposes 'line-by-line' cuts to pass Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Republican senators person voiced concerns astir President Donald Trump’s "big, beauteous bill," saying they program to ballot "no" unless its impact connected the nationalist debt tin beryllium addressed. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is calling for a instrumentality to pre-pandemic spending arsenic a imaginable solution.

The spending bill, which was passed by the House successful precocious May, is expected to adhd astir $3 trillion to the nationalist debt, including interest, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Sen. Rand Paul came retired arsenic a "no" connected the measure successful its existent form. 

"I’m a nary unless we abstracted retired the indebtedness ceiling," Paul said. "If you instrumentality the indebtedness ceiling disconnected the bill, I’m beauteous overmuch a yes connected astir of the rest." 

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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., besides expressed opposition.

"If we travel the way of the House bill, we'll person adjacent to, I think, $60 trillion worthy of indebtedness successful 10 years," Scott said connected "Mornings With Maria," Thursday. "What we've got to bash is bash what each household does: We've got to spell done each enactment of the budget."

Sen. Johnson echoed Scott’s connection connected "Sunday Morning Futures," saying helium would spot Scott to oversee a line-by-line reappraisal to find areas to chopped spending. 

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"Rick Scott has the acquisition successful Florida. Take a look astatine however palmy helium was astatine reducing spending, balancing his budget, and past giving taxation cuts to Floridians," Johnson told big Maria Bartiromo. "He'd beryllium large connected a fund reappraisal panel, I suggest that."

But arsenic for specifics, Johnson maintained that determination would beryllium nary "across-the-board" cuts successful bid to get backmost to pre-pandemic spending.

"It's been [an] unprecedented level of spending. There's nary justification for $4.4 to $7 trillion successful conscionable six years. Getting backmost to a tenable pre-pandemic level, you bash it enactment by enactment by line," helium said. 

Office of Management and Budget information shows yearly national spending accrued from $4.4 trillion to $7.3 trillion successful the years pursuing the COVID-19 pandemic.

But with an expected deadline successful July, Johnson projected splitting Trump’s "big, beauteous bill" into 2 parts to let the Senate much clip to code the shortage concerns. 

"If we divided this happening into 2 parts: borderline defense, instrumentality what spending cuts that we've already identified, slope those, widen existent taxation law, instrumentality an automatic taxation summation disconnected the table, summation the indebtedness ceiling for astir a year—by the way, that volition beryllium a shocking amount, astir $2.5 trillion conscionable to get america into March of 2026.. That ought to archer people, we amended hole this."

Trump criticized those opposing his bill, saying Republicans are "playing close into the hands of the Democrats" if they ballot "no."

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But Johnson maintained the request to instrumentality to little pre-pandemic spending.

"I privation to spot [President Trump] succeed. But again, my loyalty is to the American people, to my kids and grandkids. We cannot proceed to owe their future," Johnson said.