Holdout GOP Senators Have ‘Come To Jesus’ Moment On Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
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on June 13, 2025
By Mark Steffen
Fiscal hardliners in the U.S. Senate are suddenly going soft on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax cut bill, portending safe passage if the talking point trends hold through the end of the month.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is tasked with shepherding the president’s signature domestic legislation through the upper chamber, where it is in the process of significant edits that will make a second passage in the U.S. House an uphill battle before a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. All the meanwhile, fiscally conservative Republicans in the caucus are threatening to tank the bill unless Thune allows for further spending cuts to offset the trillions of dollars expected to be added to the national debt.
Suddenly, however, those criticisms are waning. Case in point are new remarks by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a Tea Party conservative who appears to have shifted since staking out fierce opposition to Trump’s bill.
“We all want to see President Trump succeed,” he said in an interview this week. “Everybody is trying to help. That’s why, if I seem to have been striking a more hopeful tone, it’s because I am more hopeful.”
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