The economic numbers are growing under President Donald Trump, but Democrats won’t admit that because they are “hoping that we fail,” Sen. Ron Johnson said on Newsmax Thursday. 

“They are literally cheerleading for America to fail so that President Trump doesn’t succeed so they can have a political victory,” the Wisconsin Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “It’s really pretty sick on their part.”

The passage of Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” he added, “prevented a massive automatic tax increase.”

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