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Ron Johnson: “We don't have a balanced budget requirement.”

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

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NewsNation Interview with Senator Ron Johnson on the 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Published | Video Starts at 04:48

… to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level spending and have a process to achieve it and maintain it. We've never had a process to control spending in Washington, D.C. We don't have a balanced budget requirement. The Budget act didn't do it. Simpson Bowles didn't do it. So again, I'm manufacturing. If you don't have a good process, you don't have a good product. (04:48–04:51)

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Asserts that there is no balanced budget requirement in Washington, D.C.

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