Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Wednesday that the Senate should pass the continuing resolution that would keep the government funded for another six months despite widespread dissatisfaction with the bill among the GOP.

House Republicans passed the funding measure on Tuesday, sending it to the Senate for a vote that would send it to the desk of President Donald Trump. Several Senate Republicans have expressed concerns that the legislation could fail without Democrat support due to opposition among some members of the GOP, and Johnson pushed his colleagues to support the bill despite their reservations in an interview with “Wake Up America” on Wednesday.

Johnson said, “We’re voting on the discretionary part of the budget, which is about 26%, $1.9 trillion. So this continuing resolution would be roughly $950 billion large,” which he added is “reasonably clean.”

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