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Ron Johnson: “We're going to have to codify that, and it's going to be…”

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

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Ron Johnson Sounds Off On 'Unbelievably Wasteful And Abusive' Use Of Taxpayer Money.

Published | Video Starts at 05:26

So, Mr. Chairman, one more point is, you know, one thing, and we have to figure out how do we implement the Doge exposures? There may be room for empowerment, but in general, We're going to have to codify that, and it's going to be line by line. So, again, I want to work with you and the administration to literally go line by line and build this thing up, as opposed to suffering death by a thousand cuts, starting at a grotesquely unreasonable spending level, $7.3 trillion. (05:26–05:30)

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Asserts the need to codify spending reductions line by line.

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