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Ron Johnson: “We have a spending problem starts out with President Trump…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 30:28

Yeah. In a country that has no kind of organizing principle or national identity where people are not as united as they were in, say, 1929, I had my We have a spending problem starts out with President Trump saying in the State of the Union, I'm going to do something we haven't done 24 years. Balance Federal budget. Then every Republican leader some form of, we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. In those clips, we have Elon Musk saying, if we don't fix this, there won't be money left over for anything. (30:28–30:36)

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Asserts that President Trump stated an intention to balance the federal budget, which hasn't been done in 24 years.

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