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Ron Johnson: “The houses having a problem is. They're starting at 7.3…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:25

And what we need to do is we need to connect what Elon is talking about, you know, in what function and sub function, so we can justify reducing spending back to a reasonable level. And it's, it's not where The houses having a problem is. They're starting at 7.3 trillion and they're suffering death by a thousand cuts. And they're looking for, you know, like three or four again, they want to make it easy. They don't want to have to go through 4,000 lines or 6,000 lines and do all that work. (13:25–13:33)

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Asserts that the House is struggling with budget cuts starting from a $7.3 trillion baseline.

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