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Ron Johnson: “We don't need to mortgage our children's Future by another 3…”

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

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Objection to Sen. Sanders

Published | Video Starts at 15:29

Let's not just shotgun it out to the economy again wasting tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Let's focus on that. Let's pretend it's like real money, like it's our money and spend it well. We don't need to mortgage our children's Future by another 3 or $400 billion. We don't need to do that. We can alleviate suffering. We can help our fellow Americans. We could have done it in September. (15:29–15:35)

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Asserts that an additional $300 to $400 billion in spending is unnecessary.

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