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Ron Johnson: “We're not cutting taxes for, you know, the main part of this…”

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

Senator Ron Johnson Discusses U.S. Spending and Tax Policies

Published July 1, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:33

That's where we are today. And Democrats, when they had four years, they could have repealed the Tax Cut and Job Act. They didn't do it. We're not cutting taxes for, you know, the main part of this bill is we're just not increasing taxes by $4 trillion. which would be devastating for our economy and everybody would suffer. So we just don't want to increase taxes. Now, personally, I wouldn't cut any more taxes, but the president ran on it. (02:33–02:41)

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Asserts that the main part of the bill is to avoid increasing taxes by $4 trillion.

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