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Ron Johnson: “We have to stop printing dollars. That means to start…”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson DOGE is exposing ‘grotesque’ levels of waste.

Published | Video Starts at 03:45

So she says we're not in the business of giving out money. When Doge is finding. Yes, it looks like the federal government is very much in the business of giving out money. We have to stop printing dollars. That means to start reducing the deficit. And you know, the fact of the matter is inflation is the worst invisible tax. It's highly regressive. It hurts everybody, particularly the poor. So let's get our deficit under control and balance the budget. (03:45–03:50)

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Asserts that reducing the deficit requires stopping the printing of dollars.

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