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Ron Johnson: “If you start scrutinizing [spending] line by line, there…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson on the Senate showdown over Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | All-In Interview

Published | Video Starts at 18:07

Increase the debt ceiling enough for a year to keep pressure on the process to do the work, to go line by line, expose spending. I've got to believe when you've gone from 4400 billion to 7000 billion dollars worth of spending, If you start scrutinizing [spending] line by line, there would literally be hundreds of billions of dollars that the public wouldn't even know we're not spending. The only people who would know would be the grifters who are sucking down the pork. (18:07–18:17)

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