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Ron Johnson: “That's one of the reasons we're $37 trillion in debt.”

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

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… up a 2,000 page omnibus spending bill that nobody reads, drop on our desk and say, it's Christmas Eve tomorrow, you want to go home, better vote for this sucker. That's one of the reasons we're $37 trillion in debt. So it seems dysfunctional. It is dysfunctional here. But this is a very well honed process by the uniparty. Basically the big spenders in both parties to just spend money that we can't afford. (04:05–04:08)

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Asserts that the U.S. national debt is $37 trillion.

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