GOP Senator Torches Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ on Fox: ‘We Can’t Afford to Cut Taxes!’
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) slammed President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” during a Fox Business appearance, calling it “false advertising.”
Johnson joined Fox Business’ Stuart Varney after penning a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he accused his fellow Republicans of exacerbating the problem of “overspending.”
Johnson called for a “multi-step process” for the spending bill in which Trump is given border funding and current tax law remains in place while Congress goes “line by line” through the bill and makes some major spending cuts. Johnson said the current budget bill would raise the debt from $37 trillion to $60 trillion in 10 years.
“It’s completely unsustainable,” Johnson told Varney. “So we’ve got to get this under control, but give the president the border funding, extend current tax law, take an automatic tax increase off the table. Make sure we don’t default on debt we could we could have already had that done but now we’re into this very complex very difficult negotiation on one big beautiful bill this is not getting the job done.”
The senator said he refuses to support the bill in its current form.
“It’s not beautiful. I’m sorry. It is not a big, beautiful bill. That’s called rhetoric,” he said.
Johnson went after his fellow Republicans touting the bill because it extends provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The senator argued that tax cuts are not something the country can afford until spending is under control.
“We’re going to cut spending 10 years when I’m not even in Congress. Again, that’s the problem. This is not serious. It’s exacerbating the problem. It’s not solving it,” he said. “I’ve got a great video on my X page. All our Republican leaders saying we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem and this bill is primarily about tax cuts. We can’t afford to cut taxes when we’re running over $2 trillion a year deficits for the next 10 years.”
Watch above via Fox Business.
