“Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is used to watching his fellow GOP senators look at their shoes during closed-door meetings when he waves his charts and digs in his heels on the fiscal policies that are the foundation of his political career,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“But when lawmakers return to work this week, he is determined to make them look up and pay attention.
”“The three-term Republican is insisting on deeper spending cuts in President Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill,’ saying his party is doing too little to address the country’s debt burden. His hard-line stance threatens to complicate passage of the GOP’s multitrillion dollar measure, which the Senate is turning to now and Trump wants on his desk by July 4.”