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Ron Johnson: “We're voting on the discretionary part of the budget which…”

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Dems will pay 'political price' for shutdown: Sen. Ron Johnson | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

We're halfway through this fiscal year. Chuck Schumer never put one appropriation bill on the floor when he was majority leader. We're voting on the discretionary part of the budget which is about 26%, $1.9 trillion. So this, this continuing resolution be roughly $950 billion large. It's, it's for a continuing resolution, it's reasonably clean, increases defense slightly, decreases some other domestic spending slightly. (00:20–00:29)

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Asserts that the discretionary part of the budget is about 26% and amounts to $1.9 trillion.

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