Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on Congress to tap the brakes on the “big, beautiful” budget bill, imploring the House to look to the example set by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to find real savings for American taxpayers.
“I’ve always been in favor of a multi-step process,” the Wisconsin Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” on Thursday. “Focus on the top priorities, the things we agree on, recognizing that the one big, beautiful bill is really complex.
“The only way we’re going to return to a pre-pandemic level of spending is we have to take the time and do the work, as Elon Musk has done in DOGE. He’s shown us how to do this. You have to look at each individual line item in the budget. You have to look at individual programs. You need to do pretty much a forensic audit on $7,000 billion worth of spending. I mean, try and comprehend that. In 2019, we spent $4,400 billion. Now we’re spending $7,000 billion. I hate to report the House is only going to cut about 1.3% of that and that’s not even a rounding error.”
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