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Ron Johnson: “80% of Americans support voter ID.”

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

DC breakfast with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson

Published March 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 54:49

We've got more than 7 million on our voter roll. That's just an imitation for fraud. My guess, if Susan Crawford wins, we'll overturn voter ID even though 80% of Americans support voter ID. It's not racist. They don't want their legitimate vote canceled by fraudulent vote. You take a look at some of these precincts in Milwaukee. That, that. (54:49–54:52)

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“The Appropriation Committee passed 11 of 12 [bills].”
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“74% of the budget now is just completely on automatic pilot.”
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“It's about $1.9 trillion from last year.”
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“We're going to spend about $7.3 trillion this year.”
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“That's a 63% increase in the matter of six years.”
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“Our population's growing 2.6% now.”
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“The first thing we ought to do is go to biennial budgets.”
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“We have over a thousand [confirmations].”
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“Congress can't do its constitutional duty in terms of oversight.”
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“The deep state does not give its secrets easily.”
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“Elon is exposing outrageous and grotesque levels of waste, fraud and abuse.”
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“The President is using his authority to lay off workers and clean up agencies.”
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“2019 we spent 4.4 [trillion dollars].”
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“In 2019, we spent $4.4 trillion. This year we're spending 7.3.”
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“There's no justification for being spending $7.3 trillion.”
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“There's no justification for us spending even a penny more than 6.5 trillion.”
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“We're running $2 trillion a year deficits.”
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“We're $36.4 trillion in debt.”
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“When I entered Congress, we were $14 trillion [in debt].”
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“If they [the tax cuts] expire, everybody's going to get a tax increase.”
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“In 1998, we had a surplus.”
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“Social Security is a legal Ponzi scheme.”
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“The money that we all got extracted from our checks has been spent. It is gone.”
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“The trust fund...runs out in 2034, 2035.”
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“Benefits will be reduced to the revenue that we take in...75 to 80%.”
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“Interest on our debt...is the largest expenditure item in the federal budget.”
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“President Trump very effectively used the terror threat to secure the border in his first term.”
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“We don't have free and fair trade.”
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“We do need a steel industry, we need aluminum.”
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“We should have incentives to try and maintain those vital types of industries.”
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“We should really have a three step reconciliation process.”
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“Those tax cuts in 2017 were for everybody.”
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“President Trump is proposing new tax cuts.”
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“We ain't going to balance the budget spending over $7 trillion this year.”
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“They'll gerrymander it to probably take Derek Van Orden and Brian Stiles seat.”
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“They'll overturn Act 10. They'll probably overturn voter ID.”
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“I sent more than 60 oversight letters to HHS, NIH, CDC, FDA, Department of Defense, virtually got no information.”
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“A group called ICANN Aaron Seri had to sue the government to get the results of a safety surveillance system.”
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“25% of Americans had their daily lives affected by the injection.”
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“8% had to seek medical care [due to the COVID injection].”
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“More than 37,000 people worldwide now died. 24% of those within the day of injection, within one or two days.”
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“Look at $36.4 trillion in debt. Look at the fact that our interest just to service that debt is more than we spend on anything other than…”
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“Science has been corrupted thoroughly. If the Chinese government isn't paying for the medical journals, if the pharmaceutical companies…”
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“70% of researchers said, yeah, we can't replicate data of other research we're looking at.”
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“Marcia angel was one of the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine quit in the year 2000. She finally started writing about why she…”
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“Why do we have 60% chronic illness in America today? And why don't we know the cause?”
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“Climate's always changed, always will.”
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“A $28 million check [was] made out to a completely bogus group set up by two [former] HHS employees.”
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“Ignore $7.3 trillion, a massive amount of that being completely fraudulent and wasteful.”
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“Some manager within USAID start, shred and burn everything.”
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“80,000 VA workers have not been dismissed.”
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“The VA is highly funded and that's not going to change.”
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“Trump came in and almost overnight, illegal crossings are down to a trickle.”
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“Millions, probably more than 10 million people come in here.”
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“They don't get cooperation from sanctuary cities.”
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“President Trump is pretty well delivered on [a secure border].”
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“We've got more than 7 million on our voter roll [in Wisconsin].”
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“Same day voter registration, which is dangerous.”
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“80 courts have looked at this and they've all rejected. No, most of them never looked at the evidence.”
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“There's fraud in every election.”
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“The real election denying started in 2016 by people of Hillary Clinton.”
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“Medicaid's not a true name for it. It's traditional Medicaid plus Obamacare.”
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“Obamacare is funded at 90 cents on the dollar.”
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“When $36.4 trillion blows up in your face, it's not going to be pretty.”
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