The Senate is inching toward floor consideration of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” (BBB) to pass the legislation by its July 4 deadline. Several controversial parts of the bill have been mostly smoothed over, but there are still a dozen or so senators claiming they can’t vote for the bill in its current form.
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One of those senators is Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson. When asked if he would vote for the bill, Johnson said the bill doesn’t go far enough to cut the federal deficit, which is projected to exceed $2.2 trillion annually over the next decade.
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“We’ve got a ways to go on this one,” he said.
The sticking points are familiar if you’ve been following the debate. The state and local tax (SALT)
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