Ron Johnson: “This year we're spending over 7 trillion.”

“You take those actual total expenditures, increase them by population and inflation, you'd end up spending somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion. This year we're spending over 7 trillion. So that's a huge gap. Doge and Elon Musk have shown us how to do this. You have to look specifically line by line.” (00:48–00:51)

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