Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said that President Trump’s expense bill is not doing enough to reduce the deficit.
In an interview Here is and now Peter O’Dowd, Johnson criticized the bill for not having brought public spending to pre-pale levels and did not respond if he would commit to voting if Trump asked him to make compromises.
“I’m going to talk to him,” said Johnson.
3 questions with Ron Johnson
Have you changed your mind on the bill?
“No, in fact, the more people I was talking about the acts and real figures. When they see this, and I think they agree that the main objective of this republican budgetary resolution should be to reduce the deficit. Now we are worth 37 billions of debt dollars. (Congress Budget Office) Projects more and more than $ 20. We will probably increase the deficit, pushing it up to $ 60 (Billion), $ 61 (Billion), 62 billions of dollars when we should try to control it. Just, he is not afraid. »»
WHat do you want to cut?
“”I therefore refer to this as returning to a reasonable pre-countryic expenditure base, and I presented a certain number of options. Return to (former president Bill) Clinton, (former president Barack) Obama, or Trump, to their real allies in 1998, 2014, 2019. Leave Social Security, Maladie and interest alone. You can really exempt Medicaid while taking these expenses, increasing the inflation of the population, a very reasonable control. You will owe the reference budget between 5.5 and 6.5 billions of dollars. This year, we will spend more than $ 7 (Billion) next year, you know, more than $ 7 (Billion). “”
Do you support the work requirements for Medicaid?
“Well, let’s describe what we are talking about now. We are mainly talking about the expansion of Medicaid, which is Obamacare, which pays suppliers of $ 90 over the dollar against $ $ $ $ $ $ $. And it is therefore that the expansion of Medicaid for single adults, so we need to solve this problem. government.”
This interview has been modified for more clarity.
Lynn Menegon produced and published this interview for Broadcast with Michael Scotto. Scotto also adapted it for the web.
This segment was broadcast on May 15, 2025.
