Eric Hovde was speaking with a bipartisan gathering of business and civic leaders at Milwaukee’s Rotary Club earlier this month when he did something unusual: break with the leader of his party.
“If there’s going to be an issue that I will have differences with President Donald Trump, it will, without question, probably deal with the debt issue,” Hovde said.
Hovde, the multi-millionaire chairman and CEO of Utah-based Sunwest Bank, is pushing for a shift in how the party addresses fiscal policy that would prioritize cutting the debt and federal spending over expanding tax breaks or funding even popular federal ...