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Ron Johnson: “This year we'll spend 7.3 trillion.”

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

Ron Johnson Sounds Off On 'Unbelievably Wasteful And Abusive' Use Of Taxpayer Money.

Published March 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:36

Did anybody think it wouldn't be a reasonable control to take that spending level increase by population and inflation and put that as a baseline? Nobody disagreed. Then I pointed out This year we'll spend 7.3 trillion. That baseline is 6.5. That's an almost trillion dollar delta, $800 billion. So how do you get there? A couple dozen of U.S. republican senators met with Elon Musk last week. (01:36–01:39)

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“I've taken actual total outlays from 1998 under Clinton, 2014 under President Obama, and then 2019 under President Trump.”
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“I've exempted Social Security, Medicare, I've used 2025 numbers for those and interest.”
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“If President Trump or President Biden projected revenue for 2025 at 5.5 trillion, if we'd use the Clinton baseline, we'd have a balanced…”
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“That baseline is 6.5. That's an almost trillion dollar delta, $800 billion.”
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“A couple dozen of U.S. republican senators met with Elon Musk last week.”
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“We're not talking about two or three big items. We're talking about thousands and thousands of contracts.”
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“I don't think we should be looking at anything over 6.5.”
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“I'd be starting at 5.5 and probably plusing up for defense.”
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“We're going to have to codify that, and it's going to be line by line.”
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“Starting at a grotesquely unreasonable spending level, $7.3 trillion.”
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