Sen Johnson: No Budget Resolution Without Return to Prepandemic Spending

The Trump administration’s agenda will not advance in the U.S. Senate unless the president and Republican leadership severely cut federal spending to a level that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson told Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

The Wisconsin Republican, who is a member of both the Senate Finance and Budget committees, said that the House budget resolution is not “going anywhere … without a commitment to returning to some reasonable pre-pandemic spending level, and a process to actually achieve it.”

The senator added “that’s going to be the discussion,” stressing that “we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address this. This is our moment.”

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