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Ron Johnson: “We also have the Congressional Review act, which is a very…”

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

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I think you're aware of the fact that I've proposed four options to bring spending to a pre pandemic level, somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion. That's going to defund an awful lot of the deep state we start with there. We also have the Congressional Review act, which is a very powerful act. Some of these regulations that have been enacted within a certain time frame, we can undo, we can remove them and they can't come back. A future president, future Democrat, can't put in place those same regulations again when we remove them, repeal them under Congressional Review Act. So we need to be very aggressive. (04:50–05:04)

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