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Ron Johnson: “We need to cut spending in the next couple years off the…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson on Fox & Friends

Published | Video Starts at 00:42

You know, we've had a proposal out there now for a couple months and I went over to the House Study Committee and talked about this as well. Cut, cap and balance. You know, We need to cut spending in the next couple years off the baseline. That can save trillions. But then we got to provide a statutory cap. You put us on a glide path over a number of years to get our spending, the size of government down. (00:42–00:48)

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