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Ron Johnson: “I wasn't voting for all this deficit spending so I don't…”

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

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I Didn't Think I'd Ever Be Fighting This | Ron Johnson | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published | Video Starts at 26:35

… going down and this could trigger now, you know, 20 other banks to go down and then that triggers the big one. Well, first of all, what do you do? I wasn't voting for all this deficit spending so I don't think we'd have the inflation we had. But you know, in that particular circumstance, let's go back 2008, 2009. What I would have done there is I would have said we're going to suspend this mark to market rule because it's destroying these banks for no reason. (26:35–26:39)

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Asserts that Ron Johnson did not support deficit spending, which he believes contributed to current inflation.

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