Senate Republican Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) has said that the U.S. “can’t afford” to implement Donald Trump’s proposal to send out $2,000 checks to supposedly offset costs of tariffs — just days after the president wined and dined some of the richest people on the planet at an extravagant black tie dinner in the White House.

“Look, we can’t afford it. I wish we were in a position to return the American public their money, but we’re not,” Johnson said in an interview with Fox . He went on to complain about the federal deficit.

“President Trump had deficits, about $800 billion. Obama, in his last four years, $550 billion a year. Now we’re $2 trillion? Completely unacceptable. We have to start focusing on that and doing something about it,” he went on.

Earlier this month, Trump said on

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