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Ron Johnson: “We're not cutting spending on these programs. We're just…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 26:27

We're talking about all these cuts if all we're doing is reducing the growth in spending which is completely unsustainable. So I know you're probably concerned and afraid because all that scare mongering but We're not cutting spending on these programs. We're just trying to fix the problem of Medicaid's, of Obamacare's addition to Medicaid. which puts all that at risk. As Elon Musk says in that video, if we don't fix this, there won't be money for any of these things. (26:27–26:36)

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Asserts that there are no spending cuts to Medicaid, but rather efforts to address issues with the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid.

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