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Ron Johnson: “We need to bring spending down, total spending down to a…”

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Republicans have to bring spending down in Trump budget battle: Ron Johnson | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

Well, my primary concern is we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. And as I've been writing since the first of the year, We need to bring spending down, total spending down to a reasonable pre-pandemic level. That's exactly what Chairman Graham has suggested in the Senate Budget Committee. I serve in that committee and what we've looked at and I gave a number of options. (01:58–02:01)

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Advocates for reducing government spending to levels before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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