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Ron Johnson: “Social Security is running a cash deficit of $5.1 trillion…”

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

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Senator Johnson on Fox News Channel's American's Newsroom

Published | Video Starts at 03:46

But even chained CPI, Greg, that'll supposedly raise about $230 billion of, well, actually close the gap in Social Security. But over the next 20 years, Social Security is running a cash deficit of $5.1 trillion over the next 20 years. So what we need to do is start looking at each one of these problems individually and start solving Social Security, solve Medicare, we need program tax reform. (03:46–03:53)

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Asserts that Social Security will have a $5.1 trillion cash deficit over the next 20 years.

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