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Have Dems Gone So Far That It's Time for This Nuclear Option? | Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 17:38

You know, we have not come to grips with the enormous debt, the enormous deficits that just continue to accumulating. The most recent from last year, combining the one big beautiful bill, the projection over the next 10 years, $26 trillion of additional deficits. That's averaging $2.6 trillion now. We're not at that stage yet, but they start ramping up. We've got Social Security going bankrupt. You know, the trust fund will be deplete itself in about 2033. (17:38–17:48)

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