The main problem with President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is that it codifies the sharp increase in budget deficits during and immediately after the pandemic and does not bring them down to pre-COVID-19 levels, Sen. Ron Johnson told Newsmax on Tuesday.

Although the Wisconsin Republican conceded on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that there are no doubt many good items in the bill, he insisted that “the probem is it just doesn’t go far enough.”

Johnson explained that even by the White House’s best case scenario for the performance of this bill, which is a very uncertain prospect, the average deficit per year will be almost $1.9 trillion per year for 10 years.

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