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Ron Johnson: “There are literally hundreds of billions of dollars of money…”

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

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Ron Johnson's Address on Federal Spending and Immigration Challenges in Door County

Published | Video Starts at 01:12

And again, you go from 4400 billion in spending to 7000 billion. Again, it's incomprehensible. That's why I switched from trillions to thousands of billions of dollars. There are literally hundreds of billions of dollars of money that we shouldn't be spending. that if we didn't spend, I don't think any American would even notice the whole issue. Overspending is going to be coming to a head over the next couple weeks. (01:12–01:16)

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Asserts that there are hundreds of billions in unnecessary federal spending.

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