Ron Johnson: “In 2002, we passed the $2 trillion a year spending Rubicon.”

“What do you think someone looking at the United States budget and books would say, purely from a business perspective, about the state that our country's in? It's bankrupt. I mean, In 2002, we passed the $2 trillion a year spending Rubicon. 2 trillion in 2002. 17 years later in 2019, before the COVID pandemic, and we spent 4.4 trillion.” (02:59–03:05)

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