{"id":9136,"date":"2025-05-13T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ron-johnson-says-hes-a-no-on-house-drafted-megabill\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T00:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:33:06","slug":"ron-johnson-says-hes-a-no-on-house-drafted-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ron-johnson-says-hes-a-no-on-house-drafted-megabill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Johnson says he’s a no on House-drafted megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Ron Johnson said on Monday that he doesn\u2019t support the House-drafted GOP megabill \u2014 the latest reminder of the headaches awaiting the legislation across the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is, we\u2019re looking at all the programs going, ‘We can\u2019t touch that, touch that, can\u2019t touch that,’\u201d Johnson said of the House\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n

Johnson has repeatedly warned he would oppose the bill emerging from the House if it doesn’t go far enough to reduce the deficit. The House GOP bill, which faces a crucial stretch of committee work before a full vote on the floor next week, aims to reduce spending by least $1.5 trillion. <\/p>\n

Johnson, in a separate Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday<\/u><\/a>, predicted that \u201cmuch of that minuscule decrease will be backloaded to the end of the 10 years for which Congress is now budgeting, increasing the probability those savings will never be realized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have pointed to that $1.5 trillion House target as their \u201caspirational\u201d goal. But some, including Johnson, want to go significantly higher and return to \u201cpre-pandemic” spending levels \u2014 or a reduction of roughly $6.5 trillion. Senate Finance Committee Republicans walked through the top lines of the House tax proposal during a closed-door meeting on Monday night, with Johnson indicating afterward that he was unmoved.<\/p>\n

Republicans can lose three GOP senators on the floor and still let Vice President JD Vance break the tie to pass the bill. Senate Republicans have been working behind the scenes to try to reduce the areas of disagreement before the House takes the bill to the floor, but they are also expected to make changes to the bill.<\/p>\n

Republicans believe they already have one no vote: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). If Johnson makes good on his threats, that would mean Republicans could only lose one other GOP senator. Several are being watched closely, including Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Josh Hawley (Mo.).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Ron Johnson said on Monday that he doesn\u2019t support the House-drafted GOP megabill \u2014 the latest reminder of the headaches awaiting the legislation across the Capitol. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is, we\u2019re looking at all the programs going, ‘We can\u2019t touch that, touch that, can\u2019t touch that,’\u201d Johnson said of the House\u2019s effort. Johnson has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}