Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Republicans should focus on lowering spending to “pre-pandemic levels” and said the House Budget Committee “botched” its proposal to cut spending.

The committee this month released a fiscal blueprint for GOP budget legislation that would raise the debt limit by $4 trillion, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $300 billion increase in border and defense funding, and would cut spending by $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

“If we would have taken a multi-step approach, President [Donald] Trump already would have his border funding, we probably would have plussed-up defense, we could have just extended the current tax code and taken an automatic tax cut or tax increase scheduled for 2026 off the table,” Johnson said on “Wake Up America.” “Then we could start working on what’s going to be a very difficult bill to put together.

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