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Ron Johnson: “If you use Obama's spending priorities from 2014, it'd be…”

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And we'd virtually have a balanced budget. In other words, using Clinton's spending priorities, inflate it, we'd have a balanced budget. If you use Obama's spending priorities from 2014, it'd be $6.2 trillion. So I've laid out, I tell my colleagues, you all campaign on zero based budgeting, right? We'll never do it, but this is the next best thing. (05:44–05:51)

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