Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released his long-awaited report on deficit spending Wednesday as he digs in against President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
In the 31-page report, Johnson cites numbers and graphs to support his warning that he will oppose Trump’s tax bill without further spending reductions. In a press call ahead of its release, he concedes he is not an economist and that his figures could have flawed assumptions.
Instead, Johnson described the report as an effort to spur debate. The analysis challenges many of the claims Republicans have been making about the megabill, particularly its fiscal impact.
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He argued the United States will still run trillion-dollar deficits even with the rosiest of economic growth projections and questioned whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,
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