Ron Johnson is gearing up to push for far deeper spending cuts as the Senate takes up President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy package, which the House narrowly passed Thursday. The spending cuts in the GOP's megabill,

Kentucky, said the raise is a serious hold up for him. "I still would support the bill, even with wimpy and anemic cuts," he told Fox News Sunday May 25, "if the

I'm generally the skunk in the room, or, you know, the kid who says the emperor has no clothes. I just ask my colleagues, “Hey, does anybody know how much we spent last year in total?” Dead silence. What the federal government spent in total.

The Republican lawmakers' concerns underscore the potentially difficult path ahead for the sweeping domestic policy package.

Ron Johnson (R-WI) dismissed a student's question about the Republican tax cut bill by mocking poor people. The Wisconsin Republican spoke Thursday at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he defended the extension of president Donald Trump's tax cuts when one of the students asked why the GOP bill focused on spending cuts instead of raising revenue to balance the budget.