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Ron Johnson: “We'd be looking at spending somewhere between 5.5 and 6…”

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

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Full interview with Sen. Ron Johnson | Playbook The First 100 Days: Tax Reform

Published | Video Starts at 25:34

… Bill Clinton's 1998, use Obama's 2014 or using President Trump's 2025 budget holds, those figures, inflate these things for population inflation, use slot in today's Social Security, Medicare and interest. We'd be looking at spending somewhere between 5.5 and 6 versus our current $7 trillion. That's, that's on the spending side. And I see we're running out of time. So what is your best estimate of when all this gets done? (25:34–25:40)

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Asserts that using certain budget holds, spending would be between $5.5 and $6 trillion compared to the current $7 trillion.

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