Johnson Says Won’t Vote for House Budget Bill, Latest GOP Senator to Raise Opposition

Just the News (Natalia Mittelstadt), The Star News Network

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said that he will vote against the GOP House's budget bill. “What

we’re doing is, we’re looking at all the programs, going, ‘We can’t touch that, touch that, can’t touch that,’” Johnson said of the bill, Politico reported. Johnson has said that the bill doesn’t reduce the federal deficit enough. The goal of the House bill is to reduce spending by at least $1.5 trillion. Johnson wrote that the $1.5 trillion spending cut is only a 1.68% cut of the projected federal spending of $89.3 trillion across fiscal 2026-35.