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Ron Johnson: “We're going to have to increase the debt ceiling for just to…”

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So I want to break this up into two parts to give us the time to go through that budget line by line. Will you get it We're going to have to increase the debt ceiling for just to get us by another year, probably 2 to $2.5 trillion. because we have to refill the extraordinary measures that, you know, the buckets they've taken from, to extend the debt ceiling. We're right now burning about a half a trillion dollars a quarter. (1:02:02–1:02:09)

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Asserts that the debt ceiling will need to be increased by $2 to $2.5 trillion to cover the next year.

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