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Ron Johnson: “We'd have $850 billion of real savings banked already.”

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

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Interview with Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson on Federal Budget and Spending Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 02:39

Again, we, we shouldn't be Talking about this right now. We should have been doing all the work, like say the multi step process. We'd already have the border funding, we'd have defense, We'd have $850 billion of real savings banked already. Plus we could have extended current tax law, taking tax writing increase off the table. We could have had all that done. But unfortunately decisions were made to do one big beautiful bill. (02:39–02:44)

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Asserts that a different budget process could have resulted in $850 billion in savings.

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