Republican budget hawks faced painful calculations Wednesday as the House inched toward advancing President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would saddle more generations with trillions of dollars in debt.
A fresh analysis from the Congressional Budget Office projected the proposal would pile on some $3 trillion over the next decade to the national debt, which already stands at an eye-popping $36 trillion. The estimate only further crippled chances of winning over holdouts.
“It should be D-O-A. We shouldn’t even be talking about this bill,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told the Washington Examiner. “It’s so awful. It’s so far off the mark. It’s so inadequate. I’ve been trying to interject reality. I’ve been trying to interject facts and figures.”
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Johnson added: “We’re missing the forest talking
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