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Ron Johnson: “We're going to be cutting less than 1.3% of the $89.3…”

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

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Discussion with Senator Ron Johnson on American Spending, Trade, and Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 02:18

Sounds like a lot over 10 years, that's 150 billion, which by the way is about when you add in the additional spending on border security and defense, We're going to be cutting less than 1.3% of the $89.3 trillion we'll spend over the next 10 years. we will actually increase the deficit. So if you take a look at my bottom lines of budget reconciliation, the first principle, when we're $37 trillion in debt corn CBO will be about 59 to 60 trillion dollars in 2035. (02:18–02:26)

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