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Ron Johnson: “Clinton back in 1998...spent about $1.7 trillion.”

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Published March 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:54

So what I did during the Christmas New Year's break, I started thinking how can we return to a reasonable pre pandemic level? And so I did want to put the next chart up here. I went back in … Clinton back in 1998...spent about $1.7 trillion. … population and inflation. But I used this year's Social Security and Medicare and interest. Okay, I exempted those from that analysis. (05:54–06:04)

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Asserts that the federal government spent about $1.7 trillion in 1998 under President Clinton.

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“In 2019 we spent $4.4 trillion.”
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“Next five years we averaged 6.5 trillion.”
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“Last year we spent 6.9.”
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“This year we'll spend about 7.3.”
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“Biden is projecting this year revenue coming about 5.5 trillion.”
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“The Clinton outlays that budget passed the Senate by 79 to 22.”
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“He [President Trump] said he wanted to balance the budget in his, I guess, quasi State of the Union address.”
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“He [President Trump] does need to come to terms, though, that it's not going to just be on tariff revenue.”
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“The maximum we ought to be spending this year is 6.5 and we're spending 7.3.”
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“I think [Elon Musk's actions] are going to do a lot in terms of creating the public pressure to start balancing the budget.”
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“You cannot justify spending 7.3 when we spent 4.4. And if you inflate it, it'll only be 6.5.”
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“I printed out the 5 to 6,000 line budgets.”
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“You got the outlays from 2019, you bumping up by population inflation, then you load in projected 2025 and you come up with a variance.”
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“I actually handed that to Elon Musk last week. 17 page summary of that by function, sub function.”
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“What Elon Musk is doing, he's bringing his DOGE team into these agencies.”
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“The houses having a problem is. They're starting at 7.3 trillion and they're suffering death by a thousand cuts.”
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“We'll be lucky if we can get back to 19 or 2019 levels [of spending].”
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“Leave Medicare alone, leave Social Security alone. You could even leave Medicaid alone and still have $700 billion of expenditures this year…”
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“CBO just came out and said you can't meet the House budget number without impacting or looking at Medicare and Medicaid. It's completely…”
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“The reason Medicaid is, you know, doubling in cost that way is because it's not Medicaid anymore, it's Obamacare.”
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“We pay 90 cents on the dollar versus a disabled child, 50 to 60%. That's the way Medicaid was set up.”
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“With Medicaid expansion, they love signing up ineligible because they actually make money out, they tax it.”
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“When you hear that for example, the House is looking at cuts to Medicaid, think no, they're going to try and rein in Obamacare.”
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“Red states are as well [gaming the system].”
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“It's across the board, it's red states and blue states it has to be stopped.”
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“I suggested this right after President Trump got elected, is he probably ought to have nominated a Secretary of information extraction.”
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“Bobby Kennedy is absolutely dedicated to radical transparency.”
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“I issued a friendly subpoena January 28th. We're not getting much, and it's not because of Bobby Kennedy.”
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“The deep state does not give up its secrets very easily.”
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“We absolutely need presidential leadership.”
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“I don't think anybody that voted for President Trump expected he would continue to spend at Biden levels.”
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“If this were business, this would be so simple.”
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“If you return to a Bill Clinton budget pre pandemic, come close to balancing the budget.”
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“Young people expect to get nothing from Social Security, but they'll get 70, 75 to 80%.”
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“The only way to solve this problem is Social Security.”
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“We have plenty of room of out of control spending on all these other items to balance the budget.”
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“The benefit of Doge and Elon Musk is they're showing the outrageous level of waste, fraud and abuse.”
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