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Ron Johnson: “A reasonable Pre pandemic level, 4.4 to 6.5. That's…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Concerns Over Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill'

Published | Video Starts at 07:03

There's a disconnect there. We need presidential leadership to come and say we need to reduce the size, scope and cost of government. Put it back again. A reasonable Pre pandemic level, 4.4 to 6.5. That's eminently reasonable. It's eminently doable. If you do it line by line, you could wipe out, I think, hundreds of billions of dollars of spending and nobody would even notice it. (07:03–07:11)

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Asserts that returning to pre-pandemic spending levels of 4.4 to 6.5 is reasonable and doable.

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