No Wisconsin Surprises As US Senate OKs Budget, Tax Cuts

Wisconsin’s two U-S senators vote with their parties as the G-O-P majority passed a four-trillion-dollar budget package with President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Republican Ron Johnson voted yes while Democrat Tammy Baldwin voted no on a package that was sent to the House Thursday night 51-49. Baldwin said she could not support giving most of the tax breaks to the wealthiest one-percent of Americans while cutting one-and-a-half-trillion dollars in Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the next decade — and adding to federal deficits that would never drop below 400-billion. Johnson did not issue a statement after his vote, but he did say earlier Thursday he’s working with House Republicans on a new health care reform package. Kentucky’s Ron Paul was the only Republican to vote against the Senate’s budget, saying it abandons the party’s effort to repeal Obamacare — and he tried but failed to include a replacement health package in the budget.