Ron Johnson Warns Republican Revolt Brewing in Senate Could Derail ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) warned President Donald Trump that a Republican revolt in the Senate could scuttle his prized budget bill unless the president takes deficit reduction seriously.

In a pointed appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, the Wisconsin Republican lashed out at the House-passed “Big Beautiful Bill,” crafted under the guidance of Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, calling for a dramatic rewrite to avoid what he described as fiscal recklessness.

“I think we have enough to stop the process until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit,” Johnson told anchor Jake Tapper, offering a rare intraparty rebuke that underscores simmering tensions between Trump-aligned lawmakers and fiscal conservatives in the Senate.

He said: “I haven’t changed my campaign promise [since] 2010, and every campaign after that was to stop mortgaging our children’s future. It’s immoral. It’s wrong. It has to stop. And so he may not be worried about that, I’m extremely worried about that. That is my primary goal running for Congress. This is our moment.”

He continued: “The problem here is we’ve rushed this process. We haven’t taken the time. We’ve done the same old way, exempt most programs. Take a look at a couple, tweak them a little bit, try and rely on CBO score and then have that score completely out of context with anything that really we ought to be talking about, like the $22 trillion of additional deficit over the next ten years.”

While Johnson didn’t name names, his comments indicate that a bloc of Republican senators is already prepared to challenge the House bill unless significant spending cuts are introduced.

Watch above via CNN.