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Ron Johnson: “When you have over 2,600 programs in the federal budget, my…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 03:46

For the time being, we're going to exempt Social Security and Medicare from that analysis. But I have to believe when we've gone from 4.4 trillion spending 2019 to over 7 trillion today, When you have over 2,600 programs in the federal budget, my belief is that we could eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of programs and nobody would even notice except for the grifters who are sucking down the waste, fraud, abuse and pork. So again, I'm going to continue to focus on spending, spending, spending, because this can't continue. (03:46–04:05)

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