Ron Johnson: “Our population has grown less than 3%.”

“In 2019, prior to the pandemic, we spent $4.4 trillion in total as a federal government. This year, we'll spend more than $7 trillion. That's a 60% increase as Our population has grown less than 3%. It's completely unprecedented, it's completely unjustified. And as Elon Musk and his Doge group is showing, there are example after example of grotesques, grotesque levels of waste, fraud, abuse in the federal government.” (00:45–00:48)

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