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Smokster

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2. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul for starters.

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Sun May 25, 2025, 12:46 PM

May 25

Johnson bloviates endlessly about making six trillion in cuts to the safety net. That's more than three times what the barbarians have already stuffed into the "big beautiful bill" for cuts that target the struggling workers and poor. Johnson and Paul are more extreme that the "Freedom Caucus" in the house if that's even possible.

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So some of the Senate republicans are upset with trump's big beautiful bill because it isn't cutting enough [View all] JohnSJ May 25 OP

Name the senators who want more cuts Fiendish Thingy May 25 #1

Ron Johnson and Rand Paul for starters. Smokster May 25 #2

You beat me to it. Anyone who knows the background of those goons is more JohnSJ May 25 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author JohnSJ May 25 #3