MAGA Sen. Ron Johnson delivered a blunt reality check to President Trump’s plan of handing $2,000 to American citizens, insisting, “We can’t afford it.”

The 70-year-old Johnson, a Trump loyalist from Wisconsin, said reducing the U.S.’s deficit was more important than giving Americans free money during a Monday episode of Mornings With Maria on Fox Business Network.

“We’re $38 trillion in debt,” he told anchor Maria Bartiromo. “We’ve averaged $1.89 trillion deficits over the last five years. In the next 10 years, the projection’s about $26 trillion from accumulated deficits.”

Johnson warned that the country is on “borrowed time” with its “deficit problem.”

“So many people are whistling by the graveyard. If we’re bringing in revenue through the tariffs, that oughta be applied to reduce

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