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Ron Johnson: “We need to return to a pre-pandemic spending level.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Federal Spending Cuts and Economic Growth Strategies

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

What I'm asking us to do is to do what our, the greatest generation did after World War I or after World War II. They returned to pre war spending levels that We need to return to a pre-pandemic spending level. I've laid out a number of options and look, I'm not saying it's necessarily easy, but you have to do the work. You have to go line by line. (00:45–00:51)

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