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Ron Johnson: “Last quarter we had a deficit of a half a trillion dollars.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Concerns Over Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill'

Published | Video Starts at 11:26

All of a sudden, that suspension ended. Now the debt ceiling starting to kick in again. And so now we're doing extraordinary measures. We're going to have to fill those back up. Last quarter we had a deficit of a half a trillion dollars. That used to shock people. Doesn't shock people anymore. We're just whistling by the graveyard. I'm one of the few that's not whistling by the graveyard. (11:26–11:30)

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Asserts that the deficit for the last quarter was half a trillion dollars.

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