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Ron Johnson: “1.5 trillion sounds like a lot, but over 10 years it's…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Federal Reconciliation Budget Bill and Economic Policies

Published | Video Starts at 01:40

My main beef is the debate in the House was pretty lacking in terms of looking at the numbers we really need to be looking at throughout. 1.5 trillion sounds like a lot, but over 10 years it's barely a rounding error. And the $89 trillion will spend in the $22 trillion additional deficit, which again, we can argue. I'm not a big fan of the CBO scores, their static scoring versus dynamic. (01:40–01:46)

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Asserts that $1.5 trillion is a minor amount over a 10-year period in the context of federal spending.

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