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Ron Johnson: “Doge has pretty well shown us how to do it.”

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

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There's, you know, it's not really related to the, the moment. It's, it's, it's missing the moment. Can I ask you, like, who came up with that number? Like, whose lie is that? Doge has pretty well shown us how to do it. I come from the private sector. I, I think we probably, probably spent more time either analyzing my department head budgets or my own overall company budget than Congress in total spends analyzing the $7,000 billion dollars budget of the federal government. (34:15–34:18)

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Asserts that Doge has demonstrated a method to control spending.

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