Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson: Serving his billionaire masters for 15 years

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/6/2025

Lawrence Andrea reports:

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is warning that congressional Republicans’ budget framework will fail to gain support without deeper federal spending reductions. 

And he is suggesting concerns from his GOP colleagues over cuts to programs like Medicaid are complicating the process. 

“The mistake people are making is they’re looking at programs that spend tens, hundreds of billions of dollars, ‘We can’t touch that, can’t touch that, can’t touch that.’” Johnson, Wisconsin’s highest-ranking Republican, said on May 5. “I would go through 2,400 lines and go, ‘Justify spending.’” 

Johnson, who serves on the Senate Budget Committee, has said House Republicans’ proposed budget resolution needs to go beyond its target of $2 trillion in planned cuts. Republicans, he said, should slash federal spending to levels in line with those before the 2020 pandemic.

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