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Ron Johnson: “We're increasing spending by $342 billion over four years.”

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

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NewsNation Interview with Senator Ron Johnson on the 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Published | Video Starts at 01:43

I've laid out options somewhere between 5.5 and at most $6.5 trillion, which would imply a whole lot more savings than the meager 1.5 trillion over 10 years, 150 billion at most, by the way. And then We're increasing spending by $342 billion over four years. So again, the savings we're talking about in relationship to the $89 trillion we'll be spending over the next 10 year years, it's barely a rounding error. (01:43–01:49)

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Asserts that federal spending will increase by $342 billion over four years.

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