Republicans lack the votes in the Senate to pass Trumps Big, Beautiful Bill, Sen. Ron Johnson warns

Republicans lack the necessary support in the Senate to get President Trump’s marquee One Big Beautiful Bill Act over the finish line in its current form, Sen.Ron Johnson warned.

Johnson (R-Wis.) has been one of the most outspoken critics of the megabill’s impact on deficits alongside Sen.Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and has vowed to oppose it in its current shape, regardless of pressure from Trump.

“We have enough to stop the process until the president gets serious about the spending reduction and reducing the deficit,” Johnson told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.Last Thursday, House Republicans, who have a razor-thin majority and are notoriously fragmented as well as rambunctious, narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after months of deliberations.

The mammoth legislation features an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, bolstered border security, beefed up defense, energy reforms and a slew of conservative wishlist items.But now it must clear the Senate, which has a 53-47 Republican to Democrat majority.The Wisconsin senator warned that he is far from alone in opposing the measure due to its increase in deficits.

If it becomes law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could add $3.1 trillion to the debt to the deficit over a 10-year period, according to an assessment from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued that the deficit impact has been “dramatically overstated” and praised the roughly $1.5 trillion in cuts included in the massive bill.“The CBO [Congressional Budget Office] has been panned because, as you said, they don’t do dynamic scoring,” the speaker told “State of the Union.” “They don’t account for the growth that will be fostered by all the policies.”Republicans have long railed against the CBO’s estimates about tax cuts increasing fiscal deficits.

Many GOP critics have pointed to the CBO’s estimates in 2017 that underestimated the revenue brought in after the Ta...