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  • Mike Johnson scrambles to stop Elon Musk from torching the megabill

    06/05/2025 4:55:45 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 33 replies
    Politico ^ | 06/05/2025 04:33 PM EDT | Meredith Lee Hill
    The speaker is mounting a multi-front rebuttal to the billionaire’s criticism — and trying to keep the backlash contained.Mike Johnson has spent his 19 months as speaker forging a close relationship with President Donald Trump — in part to avoid the social-media bombshells that derailed so many Republican priorities during Trump’s first term.Now he has to deal with another, perhaps even more unpredictable online bomb-thrower.Elon Musk’s decision to launch a sudden scorched-earth campaign against the GOP’s domestic-policy megabill has forced Johnson into a sudden scramble to save the centerpiece of the Republican legislative agenda.Starting in the moments Tuesday after Musk...
  • Sen. Ron Johnson says Trump's megabill 'doesn't have a CHANCE of passing' Senate

    06/05/2025 3:06:30 PM PDT · by RandFan · 82 replies
    NPR ^ | June 5 | NPR
    According to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the bill would add $2.4 trillion to deficits over the next decade while forcing millions to lose health insurance coverage. In an interview with All Things Considered host Scott Detrow, the Wisconsin senator said Trump's bill — which narrowly passed the House — will not pass the Senate in its current form because it will "skyrocket" the deficit. "I can't accept this is the new normal," Johnson told NPR. "It's just unacceptable." Now that Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is in the hands of the Senate, some...
  • CLAIM: Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham to vote against BBB

    05/25/2025 8:53:34 PM PDT · by RandFan · 79 replies
    X ^ | May 25 | krassenstein
    @krassenstein BREAKING: Ron Johnson reportedly has enough votes to block Trump’s “big beautiful bill” including Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham. Republicans are in disarray.