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Ron Johnson: “We'll be spending about $1.9 trillion in discretionary…”

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Dems will pay 'political price' for shutdown: Sen. Ron Johnson | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

All right, so Democrats seem to think that a shutdown would be Republicans fault, but they're the ones voting no. So what do you make of Senator Warren's comments there? It's all rhetoric. It's all demagoguery. Again, the fact is We'll be spending about $1.9 trillion in discretionary spending this year. This is going to fund about 900, $950 billion. It's pretty clean. It's basically what we spent under Joe Biden. And that's what continue resolution is. (02:50–02:56)

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