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Ron Johnson: “We've walled off such a huge amount of our federal budget.”

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

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Senator Johnson on Neil Cavuto -- 2/22/11

Published | Video Starts at 02:26

In Wisconsin, it's tough to do it in Washington. You even said the 61 billion, which has been called draconian, is under the couch cushion type change here. So. Well, the problem is We've walled off such a huge amount of our federal budget. Certainly I would agree with the Heritage foundation. We need to bring everything back onto the budget. I don't understand why Congress, why the administration has absolved itself of responsibility of taking a look at all spending and review that every year. (02:26–02:29)

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Asserts that a significant portion of the federal budget is protected from cuts.

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