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Ron Johnson: “We've incurred on average $1.9 trillion deficits and we're…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses National Guard Deployment and Critiques Trump's Tax Bill

Published | Video Starts at 06:41

You sound like you're warming to it as you have conversations. Is that a fair assessment? No, I've heard harsh, I've had harsh words about the fact that we're morging our kids future, that We've incurred on average $1.9 trillion deficits and we're going to incur another $22 trillion deficits over the next 10 years. And that's probably a rosy scenario. I've had have had harsh words for our current situation. And my only problem with this bill is it just doesn't go far enough to address that big mess. (06:41–06:49)

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