Ron Johnson: “Fiscal year 2015, the appropriate amount of money was about…”

“Since 1980, when the department was established, it spent about $1.5 trillion of taxpayer money divided by 35 years. That's an average about $43 billion per year. Fiscal year 2015, the appropriate amount of money was about $87 billion. And I think the question that this committee is asking, that I think taxpayers need to ask, is American taxpayer, are we getting our money's worth out of it?” (01:52–01:57)

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