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Ron Johnson: “We've got a structural deficit of around 6% right now.”

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

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$4,400 billion spent in 2019, $7,000 billion dollars spent this year, projected to spend 7,300 billion next year. And now let's kind of bring this back to the debate that we're talking about on the one big beautiful bill. We've got a structural deficit of around 6% right now. CBO is projecting over the next 10 years, 6%. So federal revenue will be, according to CBO, 18.1, even though it's about 17.1. (06:19–06:23)

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Asserts that the U.S. has a structural deficit of approximately 6%.

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