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Ron Johnson: “We pretty well settled on a $6.4 trillion baseline spending…”

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Published October 16, 2023 | Video Starts at 03:12

17 years later in 2019, before the COVID pandemic, and we spent 4.4 trillion. But then we had this massive spending spree during COVID you know, the COVID relief packages, We pretty well settled on a $6.4 trillion baseline spending [after COVID relief packages]. Now we ramped up spending by almost $2 trillion per year in just four years. And the Unit Party is okay with it? I guess so. (03:12–03:23)

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Asserts that U.S. baseline spending increased to $6.4 trillion after COVID relief packages.

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