President Trump and his team finally won enough Republicans in the House over to pass the “Big, Beautiful Spending Bill” that President Trump championed as achieving big financial relief for seniors, no taxes on tips, and a renewal of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Predictably, Senate RINOs are now trying to block the tax cuts.
Such is what Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) vowed to do when he appeared on Sunday, May 25, on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper. During that appearance, Sen. Johnson said that he had rallied enough GOP senators to block the passage of Trump’s spending bill without major changes to appease them, which would put the bill at risk of not passing again in the House.
It was show host Jake Tapper who broached the subject, asking the senator if he is willing to be the guy who blocks Trump’s favorite bill. He asked, “How determined are you to be that guy if it actually means telling President Trump you are going to vote against the bill and you’re going to try to get other Republican senators to join you, unless there are major, major changes?”
Responding, the self-aggrandizing RINO claimed to only be fighting for fiscal sanity and falsely framed himself as an integral component of the Tea Party movement. Beginning, he claimed to be fighting for “freedom,” saying, “Well, in 2010, I sprang out of the Tea Party movement and as I did parades I would shout, ‘This is a fight for freedom. We are mortgaging our children’s future. It’s wrong. It’s immoral. It has to stop.'”
Then, instead of focusing on the massive reforms of the entitlement programs system that would be required to rein in deficit spending, Sen. Johnson blamed President Trump’s small alleviation of the tax burden for the massive debt problem, saying, “I haven’t changed. My campaign promise in 2010, and every campaign after that was to stop mortgaging our children’s future. It’s immoral. It’s wrong. It has to stop.”
Still not done, he continued to insist that the debt is all he cares about and must be stopped from growing, but didn’t focus on what would actually need to be done to control it and instead just attacked Trump. He said, “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.”
Tapper then asked the Senate RINO how many other GOP senators agree with him on this and will block the bill, asking, “I’m just wondering if you could just give me a number, how many other Republican senators do you think share your concerns and are willing to make work to make major changes to this bill?”
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Sen. Johnson, responding, said that there is a budding revolt against President Trump’s spending bill in the Senate, saying, “I think we have enough to stop the process until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit.”
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