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Ron Johnson: “We're $5 trillion apart.”

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

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Senator Johnson on The Kudlow Report

Published | Video Starts at 10:23

The House budget is passed over 10 years, would actually reduce spending by about $4 trillion. Patty Murray's Senate budget increases spending by a trillion, increases taxes by a trillion. We're $5 trillion apart. So I have to, in the end, you go, we can't force that immovable object, which is the Democrat Party that refuses to acknowledge the problem, much less work with … (10:23–10:25)

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Asserts that there is a $5 trillion difference between the House and Senate budget proposals.

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