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Ron Johnson: “If you inflate [Trump's 2019 budget], you'd only be at 6.5…”

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Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE

Published February 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:05

You have to start at some pre pandemic level baseline. Again, I've laid out Clinton, 1998, Obama 2014, even Trump's 2019. If you inflate [Trump's 2019 budget], you'd only be at 6.5 trillion. I still think that's too high. But it's $800 billion below where we are right now, and it's over half a trillion below where the House is trying to struggle passing a budget. (12:05–12:09)

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Asserts that inflating Trump's 2019 budget would result in a $6.5 trillion budget.

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“In 2019, we spent $4.4 trillion. Then we had Covid, went on a massive bipartisan spending spree, spent almost 6.6 trillion.”
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“The last five years, we've averaged $6.5 trillion. Last year, we spent 6.9. This year, we're on a path to spend $7.3 trillion.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 04:27-04:38
“4.4 to $7.3 trillion, that's a 63% increase while our population has grown 2.6%.”
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“If you use Clinton's spending from 1998 and you increase it by population growth and inflation, plus this year's Social Security, Medicare…”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 05:23-05:36
“If you use Obama's spending priorities from 2014, it'd be $6.2 trillion.”
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“The House budget... they're basically going from $7.3 trillion and at most they'll cut 200 billion from that and end up at 7.1 trillion.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 06:17-06:34
“Democrats use government to fund their radical left ideology and they don't want the public to see it.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 07:54-08:02
“We have to do that through the legislative process.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 08:37-08:40
“One of the devious things the unit party has done is they've transferred discretionary spending into the mandatory accounts.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 10:49-10:57
“We've increased from 642 billion to 1.3 trillion since 2019.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 11:00-11:07
“That's discretionary spending. That's less than 30% of our budget.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 11:26-11:30
“It's $800 billion below where we are right now, and it's over half a trillion below where the House is trying to struggle passing a budget.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 12:10-12:20
“At least our budget says 6 trillion, 61 billion.”
Senator Ron Johnson Speaks Out on Ukraine, the Budget and DOGE | Uploaded February 22, 2025 | 12:27-12:32