But the government, government accounting expects, experts say it adds up to $4 trillion adding to the nation's debt. That is. So the simple math here is that with $36 trillion deficit, Senator Johnson says that's not acceptable. I don't talk about cuts. I talk about returning to reasonable pre-pandemic levels of baseline using total expenditures, the exact same expenditures that Clinton, Obama and Trump laid out. That's not cutting, that's just returning to a reasonable spending level. Senator Johnson also says he's concerned with President Trump's on again, off again tariff talk and which he says is creating uncertainty for businesses when it comes to future capital investments. (00:43–00:55)
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Asserts that returning to pre-pandemic spending levels is not cutting but reasonable budgeting.
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