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Ron Johnson: “We pretty well flattened out federal government spending at…”

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Like the federal government spending almost twice what it was just the other day. Where's all that money going? How did that happen? What is that? We pretty well flattened out federal government spending at about 3.5 trillion for five or six or seven years. And then the last couple years of the Obama administration started creeping up. And then under Trump, it went from about 4 trillion to 4.1 to 4.4, and then it went to 6.5. (24:23–24:29)

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Asserts that federal spending was stable at about $3.5 trillion for several years.

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