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Ron Johnson: “It is true that we beat the CBO estimates, but that's…”

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 51:47

I think we have, but not as much as, I think, the headline numbers, because so much of it has been fueled by the government. By the way, that's also true in terms of revenue coming from the government. It is true that we beat the CBO estimates, but that's because of trillions of dollars of deficit spending starting the pandemic years followed through with, with, with Biden. Prior to the pandemic, we weren't, we really weren't matching even the CBO's, you know, downgrade of revenue coming in after the TCGA. We weren't hitting it, but then you had Covid hit. (51:47–51:58)

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Asserts that CBO estimates were exceeded due to deficit spending during and after the pandemic.

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