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Ron Johnson: “Obama his last, his last term, 550 billion average deficits.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses National Guard Deployment and Critiques Trump's Tax Bill

Published | Video Starts at 04:23

That's what Democrats left for us. So again, that takes money. And unfortunately, they also pretty well mortgaged our children's future with massive deficit. President Biden had an average deficit of $1.9 trillion. Obama his last, his last term, 550 billion average deficits. Trump had to do deals Democrats 810. Then of course, we had the massive bipartisan spending spree in 2020. But we should have come down to a reasonable pre pandemic, pre pandemic level of spending in deficits. (04:23–04:28)

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Asserts that Obama's last term had an average deficit of $550 billion.

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