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Ron Johnson: “Take 89.3 trillion down to little under $88 trillion.”

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

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Discussion with Senator Ron Johnson on Federal Spending and Budget Reforms

Published | Video Starts at 08:54

How much difference is really being made if we're just talking about gradations of how much debt we're going to undertake? Well, again, what we're looking at right now in the bill is a 1.6% reduction over 10 years. Take 89.3 trillion down to little under $88 trillion. Again, it's not even a rounding error. I mean, that's how insignificant it really is. And so basically what we're talking about is we're basically codifying all of the Biden spending, all the Biden Covid spending. (08:54–08:59)

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Asserts that the bill reduces spending from $89.3 trillion to just under $88 trillion.

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