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Senator Ron Johnson Brings His Charts to the Studio to Talk Cutting the Budget | Clay and Buck

Published | Video Starts at 07:07

So, again, I have been too negative because I've been focusing on the macro problem and I haven't been talking as positively as I should on all the good things in the big beautiful bill, because there are a lot of good things. We fund the border, we fund defense. This House did a pretty good job of identifying about $1.5 trillion in spending reduction. That's good. We extend current tax law. We take an automatic tax increase off the table. We avoid, avoid default. Okay, Those are all great things. (07:07–07:15)

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