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Ron Johnson: “We spent 6.5 trillion the next year [after 2019].”

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

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation

Published March 5, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:02

Senator, that's the best projection we have right now. And again, that compares to 2019. We spent $4.4 trillion in total. Then we went on the COVID spending spree and never stopped and We spent 6.5 trillion the next year [after 2019]. We've averaged 6.5 trillion over the last five years. Last year we spent 6.9, this year about 7.3. And I asked my colleagues in Senate lunch today, I said, anybody think we spent too little in 2019? (05:02–05:09)

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Asserts that the U.S. government spent $6.5 trillion in 2020.

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“We spent $4.4 trillion in total [in 2019].”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 04:59-05:03
“We've averaged 6.5 trillion over the last five years.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 05:08-05:12
“This year about 7.3 [trillion].”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 05:08-05:12
“Last year we spent 6.9 [trillion].”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 05:11-05:13
“That number would be 6.5 trillion versus 7.3.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 05:45-05:50
“What the House did, God bless them, love them. Grossly inadequate.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 06:02-06:09
“Reset the baseline at 6,061,000,000,000.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 06:47-06:52
“There's no way we should be even thinking about spending anywhere more than $6.5 trillion.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 06:53-07:00
“The House passed a budget resolution to not go basically below 7.1.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 07:01-07:06
“Government was Too big in 2019, it was too big. In 2014, it was too big. In 1998.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 08:14-08:22
“In 1998, that dollar is now worth 51 cents. The $2014 now is 74 cents. The $2019 worth 80 cents.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 09:24-09:34
“Costs about $400 billion a year to comply with [the current tax code].”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 09:51-09:55
“I've actually proposed a three step reconciliation process.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 10:01-10:05
“President Trump has effectively used tariffs to get countries to do things they should do but won't do.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 11:54-12:02
“He used tariffs brilliantly in his administration to get Mexico to cooperate with his remaining Mexico policy.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 12:01-12:09
“In Wisconsin, we've got farmers who will be affected. We've got home builders, we've got manufacturers that compete globally.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 12:12-12:19
“Hundreds of thousands of people died because of hospital protocols using remdesivir ventilators.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 17:43-17:50
“The whole 6ft apart is total BS. Masks were total BS.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 17:50-17:55
“We need documents first out of hhs. We need to find out what they knew, when they knew it.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 18:48-18:53
“They were just 100% dedicated to vaccine. Vaccine. Vaccines. The only or not, not even vaccine, the injection, the COVID ejection was the…”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 18:56-19:08
“I learned about the concept of antibody dependent enhancements and, you know, examples of where they vaccinated flocks.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 19:46-19:57
“The virus mutated and became even more deadly.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 19:58-20:02
“Science has been corrupted, research has been corrupted.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 20:48-20:52
“We can't trust the medical establishment. We can't trust the federal health agencies.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 21:07-21:12
“Radical transparency is the solution to [the problem with federal health agencies].”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 21:09-21:12
“I don't think we should allow a big pharma to advertise.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 22:03-22:06
“The revolving door is a huge problem. We should be able to fix it.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 22:16-22:21
“The American public has the truth and the information that is theirs. I mean, they own this.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on So Called Vaccines, Tariffs & Taxation | Uploaded March 5, 2025 | 23:03-23:10