Ron Johnson: “If you cut $100 billion this year, that lowers the baseline…”

“I mean, if you're talking about cutting, you know, if you're projecting a cut 10 years out, where's the fiscal discipline? How do you have any guarantee that's going to happen? Now If you cut $100 billion this year, that lowers the baseline and can lead to a trillion dollars in cuts. project out, you know, if you cut 100 billion this year times 10, that will probably get you a trillion dollars worth of cuts. That's a real cut.” (06:13–06:18)

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