From $14 trillion to $40 trillion in 15 years: Sen Budget Chair Johnson ready to stare down crisis

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson stepped into the role of Senate Budget Committee chairman in the most trying of times – he was replacing close friend Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had suddenly passed in July, and about a month into the job he was thrust into the task of trying to rein in a record federal debt of $40 trillion. "It's wrong. It's immoral. It's got to stop," he said Tuesday on the John Solomon Reports podcast about the rising debt. The debt has climbed from $14 trillion to more than $40 trillion in just 15 years, and projections put...