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Ron Johnson: “We put set 75% of our budget, call it mandatory.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Opposition to Trump's Tax Bill and Fiscal Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 07:14

It's across the board. It's, it's in every spending category because we don't control it. We don't go line by line like a business does or like a family does. We just, We put set 75% of our budget, call it mandatory. And again, there's Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But in other mandatory, there's over a trillion dollars. And as I said right now, just from, just from 2019, we're $239 billion above fully inflated to 2019 spending. (07:14–07:18)

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