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Ron Johnson: “Preventing a massive $4 trillion automatic increase.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 11:46

I hate going backwards, but I'm very curious on why you oppose the big beautiful bill and what specifically changed your mind to support it. Well, again, so I always supported the main elements and the main element was Preventing a massive $4 trillion automatic increase. Certainly didn't want to default under debt because of the messes, the enormous messes that Biden left the open borders, the raging wars, the $1.9 trillion average deficits after Covid cost money to fix those messages. (11:46–11:50)

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