Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said the House’s reconciliation bill will not pass the Senate.

“The ‘big, beautiful bill,’ I think that’s the Titanic,” Johnson told Politico. “I think that’s going down because I think I have enough colleagues in the Senate that this has resonated with, that say, ‘Yeah, we have to return to a reasonable pre-pandemic spending.’ “

Last week, Johnson told Newsmax he was “not particularly optimistic” about the bill or Republicans’ ability to pass it by July 4, given “spending levels.”

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