Ron Johnson: “The seven years before the pandemic, our deficit averaged…”

“So we have to provide funding for border the wars. We had to provide funding to the defense massive four year average deficit of 1.9 trillion. The seven years before the pandemic, our deficit averaged 660 billion. Four years afterwards under Biden and Democrats, 1.9 trillion. So again, it is true, the House provided us with the spending reduction about historic spending reduction, about 1.4 trillion then actually has about 1.6.” (01:10–01:18)

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