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Ron Johnson: “We got about one and a half trillion dollars of additional…”

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

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Voter Asks Ron Johnson Why He Voted For Big, Beautiful Bill Despite It Raising National Debt

Published | Video Starts at 02:01

Spending went from 4.4 trillion to over $7 trillion from 2019 to this year. Totally unjustified. The bottom line is this is all we could get. We got, We got about one and a half trillion dollars of additional spending reduction, historic in nature. Just we've got so much further to go. So, you know, again, a legitimate question. I hopefully explain that nobody wanted to increase taxes. I certainly didn't want to do that. (02:01–02:07)

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Asserts that there was a historic reduction in spending by about $1.5 trillion.

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