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Ron Johnson: “We could have banked at least $850 billion of real spending…”

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

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Can't keep spending at emergency pandemic levels: Sen. Ron Johnson | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 04:12

Do you think that's possible, that all the things that need to get done with this bill, well, first of all, we could have already had the border defense. We could have banked at least $850 billion of real spending cuts. That's more than half what the House was targeting. We could have already extended current tax law to take an automatic tax increase off the table. (04:12–04:17)

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